Russian President Vladimir Putin raised a few eyebrows when he suggested that Wagner’s private jet passenger Yevgeny Prigozhin detonated a grenade on board, possibly while high on cocaine, resulting in a fatal crash.
Speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Thursday, Putin said the head of Russia’s investigative committee had reported to him several days ago that Prigozhin’s plane was blown up from the inside, not shot down by a missile. , while flying from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
“Shards of grenades were found in the bodies of those killed in the crash,” Putin claimed. “There are no external effects on the aircraft – this is already a solid fact.”
Putin did not say how the grenade could have been detonated on the Embraer jet – but he insinuated that some passengers may have been high or drunk during the ill-fated August 23 flight, saying he thought investigators were wrong not to test the bodies. accident victims due to drugs and alcohol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s jet was brought down by a grenade detonated on board. AP The boss of the Wagner Group died on August 23 when his private plane fell from the sky outside Moscow.AP
“In my opinion, such an inspection should have been carried out but it was not,” Putin said.
The Russian leader emphatically added that the FSB raid on the Wagner Group office in St. Petersburg collected 11 pounds of cocaine, along with $100 million in cash.
Although Putin stated that the investigation into the flight disaster was not over, he appeared to be trying to refute US claims that Prigozhin’s jet carrying 10 people was shot down by a missile.
Putin said he was told by Russia’s chief investigator that grenade fragments were found in the bodies of the crash victims. TELEGRAM/ @grey_zone/AFP via Getty Images Prigozhin died two months after leading a rebellion against Russian military leaders. AFP via Getty Images
On Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said investigators had yet to produce a final report on the cause of the crash, which came exactly two months after Wagner’s chief led a short-lived rebellion against the Russian military leadership.
Putin publicly labeled Prigozhin a traitor, before agreeing to a truce with the mercenaries.
Western critics of Putin have accused the Russian leader of killing Prigozhin in revenge. AP
After the jet went down in the Tver region, the Kremlin dismissed as an “absolute lie” the notion that Putin had killed Prigozhin as payback for his rebellion.
Putin later praised his former ally as a “talented businessman” who he said made some “serious mistakes.”
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