Fragments of hand grenade had been discovered on the our bodies of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and different passengers, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin in regards to the deaths of the mercenary group chief and different key members who died in a flight crash just lately.
Speaking at Valdai Dialogue Membership assume tank in Sochi, Putin stated, “I do know there’s most likely a query that’s begging to be requested about what occurred to the corporate’s management. We all know in regards to the airplane crash.”
Suggesting that the flight crash was attributable to an inner explosion, Putin stated, “The pinnacle of the Investigative Committee briefed me simply the opposite day. Fragments of hand grenades had been discovered within the our bodies of these killed within the crash. There was no exterior affect on the airplane, and that is a longtime truth, the results of an examination that was performed by the Russian Investigative Committee,” TASS company reported quoting Putin.
Moscow had earlier denied any function in Prigozhin’s dying. Earlier, US Intelligence reported that the airplane crash presumed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was “deliberately attributable to an explosion”. US authorities had stated {that a} surface-to-air missile that originated inside Russia shot down the personal jet with Prigozhin onboard.
Nonetheless, suggesting that these died may have been beneath the affect of liquor or medication because the deceased our bodies weren’t subjected to these exams. “The investigation is ongoing, however, regrettably, no exams had been carried out to find out whether or not alcohol or medication had been current within the blood of the deceased,” Putin reported. “For my part, a check of this sort ought to have been carried out, nevertheless it wasn’t,” TASS quoted Putin as saying. Putin stated throughout raids at Wagner workplaces by the Federal Safety Service, 5 kilograms of cocaine together with ten billion rubles had been seized.
A flight carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin and different key members of the mercenary group bought killed in a flight crash on August 23. An Embraer personal jet travelling from Moscow to St. Petersburg crashed within the Tver area.