The Kremlin rejects information that the explosion of Prigozhin's plane was caused by a small bomb under one wing
The Kremlin accused the Wall Street Journal of publishing this Friday “Fiction” Afterwards, the media reported that the death of the head of the Wagner mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhina plane crash was staged by Russian security officials Nikolai Patrushev.
The WSJ reported that the private plane Prigozhin He was shot down by a small bomb planted under a wing. He quotes unnamed Western intelligence officials and a former Russian intelligence officer.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, He said he had seen the article but declined to comment before adding: “Unfortunately, the Wall Street Journal has been very fond of producing fiction lately.”
Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary group that fought for Russia in Ukraine, waged a long dispute with the Defense Ministry establishment that culminated in open mutiny in late June. It ended quickly but was interpreted as a serious challenge to the president's control of power. Wladimir Putin for almost a quarter of a century.
Exactly two months later, Prigozhin died in a plane crash. The Kremlin had previously dismissed claims that he was murdered on the orders of the Russian president as a “complete lie.” Putin suggested in October that the accident was caused Detonation of hand grenades on the plane.
Nine other people died in the accident: two other leading figures of the Wagner militia, Prigozhin's four bodyguards and a three-man crew.
Patrushev, 72, is a former head of the FSB security service who currently serves as secretary of the Russian Security Council and is considered one of the most influential hardliners among Putin's close advisers. The two have known each other since they worked together in the Soviet KGB in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg, in the 1970s.
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