Russian paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s apparent assassination continues to stir “reasonable doubts” in the minds of Western officials, wary as they are to trust Russia's official statements.
“We don't yet know the circumstances of this crash,” French government spokesman Olivier Veran said Thursday."We can have some reasonable doubts.”Prigozhin, the long-time leader of the vaunted Wagner Group mercenary force, died in a plane crash on Wednesday along with most of his most senior associates, according to Russian authorities.
“It’s not clear who would be lying in this case. If Prighozin staged it ... why would officials participate in this?” expatriate Russian economist Konstantin Sonin, a Putin critic now affiliated with the University of Chicago, told the Washington Examiner. “Imagine that this is staged ... it's like a bad novel joined into a worse novel, right? Why would they conspire [together]?”
The international uncertainty about even those details was apparent on Thursday. Reuters cited unnamed U.S. officials to report that the “U.S. believes surface-to-air missile originating inside Russia likely shot down plane carrying Prigozhin,” an assessment soon contradicted by other U.S. officials who told the Wall Street Journal that “preliminary” information points to the idea “that a bomb exploded on the aircraft or that some other form of sabotage caused the crash” on Wednesday.
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