A month and a half after the death of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash in Russia, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin publicly stated that shrapnel had been discovered in the remains of the crash victims. The head of the investigative committee informed him of the findings a few days ago, Putin said on Thursday. “Fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the crash victims,” his statement said.
At the same time, Putin assured: “There was no outside influence on the plane.” Russian investigators did not comment on whether they believed an assassination attempt, a technical defect or human error was the likely cause of the crash.
Putin’s statement in the original wording:
Crashed on August 23
The private plane carrying the head of the Russian mercenary group crashed on August 23 during a flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg. In addition to the Wagner boss, his deputy Dmitri Utkin and eight other people were also killed.
Prigozhin crash: Ukraine suspects Moscow’s retaliation
Ukraine and Western countries had expressed suspicion that it was an act of revenge by the Kremlin. Moscow has rejected this.
Prigozhin fell out of favor with Putin after his Wagner troupe’s uprising against the Russian military leadership on June 23. The Kremlin boss considered the Wagner boss a traitor.
Source: Krone
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