MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (Oct 5) suggested that the plane crash which killed Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in August was caused by
A woman mourns next to a makeshift memorial for Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, as people mark 40 days since his death to respect an Orthodox tradition, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on Oct 1, 2023. crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 people on board
"There was no external impact on the plane - this is already an established fact," Putin said, seemingly rubbishing assertions by unidentified US officials who said shortly after the crash that they believed it had been shot down. The investigators of the crash have yet to report publicly on the cause. Neither Wagner nor Prigozhin's family could be reached to comment on Putin's remarks.Prigozhin died two months after leading a brief mutiny against Russia's defence establishment that posed the biggest challenge to Putin's rule since the former KGB spy came to power in 1999. Western diplomats say it exposed the strains on Russia of the war in Ukraine.
"We do not yet have a consensus in Russia about whether we need such formations or not, but today I can say for sure that several thousand fighters of this company have already signed contracts with the armed forces," Putin said.
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