The Kremlin on Friday accused the American newspaper “The Wall Street Journal” of publishing what it called “cheap fiction” after it accused a Russian official of being behind the killing of a president. Wagner Group Russian military special Yevgeny Prigozhin In a plane crash.
The spokesman said Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said he had seen the story claiming that the killing of Prigozhin was planned by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, the former head of the Federal Security Service, but he would not comment on it, adding that this American newspaper had become fond of what he described as the production of cheap fiction.
The newspaper reported that Prigozhin’s private plane was shot down by placing a small bomb under one of its wings, a report in which the newspaper based on statements by officials in Western intelligence services and a former Russian intelligence officer, according to Reuters.
Wagner’s forces fought in Ukraine, but Prigozhin was strongly critical of the Russian defense establishment and led a “brief mutiny” in late June.
The US President also backed down joe biden Late last August, he expressed his previous statements regarding the downing of Prigozhin’s plane, saying that his country was seeking to determine how Prigozhin’s plane fell and its ten passengers were killed, explaining that he could not speak freely about this, after Moscow criticized a previous statement by Biden that he was not “surprised by the reports.” About the murder of Prigozhin.
On August 23, 2023, TASS news agency reported from the Russian Emergencies Ministry that 10 people were killed in the crash of a private plane in the Tver region, north of the capital, Moscow, while the Russian Civil Aviation Authority said that Prigozhin was on the passenger list of the plane, which was heading on a domestic flight. From Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Russian and other pro-Wagner media outlets announced the killing of Prigozhin along with his aides who were on board the plane that crashed, and the official of the pro-Russian administration in the Ukrainian district of Zaporozhye announced that one of Wagner’s leaders identified the bodies of Prigozhin and his deputy Dmitry Utkin the day after the plane crash.
The Kremlin has previously rejected a suggestion that Pres Vladimir Putin He killed Prigozhin for the purpose of revenge, and described the insinuation as a “pure lie”, but said that the investigation into the plane crash took into account the possibility of a crime, as Putin had previously hinted that the plane crash occurred due to the explosion of explosive devices inside it.
On August 25, 2023, Putin offered his condolences to Prigozhin’s family and the rest of the victims’ families, saying that he had known Prigozhin since the 1990s, “and he was a talented person, but his destiny was complicated and he had many mistakes in his life, but he achieved important results.”
