2023-10-05 20:43:25
Shrapnel and cocaine
New details on plane crash that killed Prigozhin
Fragments of a hand grenade in the corpses and several kilos of cocaine in the office of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. New details have become public about the plane crash in August.
Published5. October 2023, 10:43 p.m
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in August 2023.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement appeared to indicate that an accidental grenade explosion caused the plane to crash.
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The private plane carrying Prigozhin and other high-ranking commanders of his Wagner private army crashed on August 23 on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
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On August 23, 2023, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet crashed.
The 62-year-old and nine other people were killed in the accident.
According to a preliminary assessment by US intelligence agencies, the crash was caused by an intentional explosion.
According to President Vladimir Putin, fragments of a hand grenade were found in the crashed plane of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. The splinters were discovered in the bodies of people who were on the plane with Prigozhin in August, Putin said on Thursday. Experts found no evidence that there was an “external impact”. All ten people on board died.
Putin pointed out that the investigation was still ongoing and did not want to comment on the cause of the crash. However, his explanation seemed to indicate that an accidental grenade explosion caused the plane to crash. The Russian president said investigators had the remains Although it was not tested for alcohol and drugs, five kilograms of cocaine were found during searches in Prigozhin’s office in St. Petersburg – apparently an attempt to denigrate the mercenary boss.
US intelligence gives preliminary assessment
The private plane carrying Prigozhin and other high-ranking commanders of his Wagner private army crashed on August 23 on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Exactly two months earlier, Prigozhin had launched a brief uprising against the Russian military leadership.
A preliminary assessment by US intelligence agencies concluded that an intentional explosion caused the crash. Western representatives referred to a long list of Putin opponentswho were killed. The Kremlin called claims that it was behind the crash an “absolute lie.” After the crash, Putin described the 62-year-old Prigozhin as “a man with a difficult fate” who had made big mistakes in life.
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