MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman has refuted allegations that the Kremlin was responsible for the plane crash which reportedly killed Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Dmitry Peskov in a press conference said that there are lots of speculations about the plane crash and the deaths of the passengers on board.
He noted that west is trying to give a different angle to the tragic plane crash and their speculations are just a complete lie.
Forensic analyses underway to determine identities
The official to a question said that authorities are right now carrying out necessary forensic analyses before revealing the identities of those killed in the plane crash.
A preliminary US intelligence assessment had alleged that the plane was crashed after a planned explosion.
It presumed that Prigozhin was the prime target because of criticism on President Putin.
Putin yesterday expressed his condolences over the plane crash and sympathized with the bereaved families. On Prigozhin he said that he was a person who had made serious mistakes in his life.
Reportedly Prigozhin, 62, was on the plane with nine others that crashed on Wednesday, however, his death has yet to be confirmed.
US President Joe Biden has said that he was “not surprised” at news reports that Wagner mercenary group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin may have died in an airplane crash in Moscow.
The accident comes sixty days after Wagner Chief started a protest march on Moscow forcing exclusion of Russias’s military leadership.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, established his private Wagner mercenary a fighting force in the conflict on Ukraine but also created enemies in the Russian regular army.
