The head of German diplomacy, Annalena Burbock, joined European countries’ suspicions of the Kremlin’s responsibility in the alleged death of Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash in Russia.
“It’s no coincidence that the whole world is now looking at the Kremlin when a former Putin aide literally fell out of favor, suddenly disappearing from the sky, two months after the attempted mutiny,” Burbock said.
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden said that “little happens in Russia without Putin’s participation.”
“We know this pattern in Putin’s Russia. Questionable deaths and suicides, defenestrations. All unsolved cases pointing to a system of dictatorial power,” the German foreign minister added.
Caution prevails in European countries in reacting to Wednesday’s plane crash that killed Prigozhin.
French government spokesman Olivier Veran acknowledged that there are “reasonable doubts” about what happened, given the longstanding relationship between Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In the United Kingdom, Ministry of Defense sources consulted by BBC Public Radio list the Russian FSB security service as the prime suspect in the death of Prigozhin, who traveled with nine other people, including the “headquarters” of the mercenary group, in the crash was that there are no survivors, according to the Russian authorities.
In Ukraine, the secret services of the Ministry of Defense were convinced that the Kremlin was behind the crash of the plane with Prigozhin.
“Only Russian propaganda can suggest the likelihood that some kind of accident occurred in this case. It is clear that this is a deliberate terrorist act,” defense director Andrei Yusov said in a television interview.
Yusov added that while the information that Prigozhin was on the plane still needs to be confirmed, the most likely scenario is that he was one of the passengers.
On Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) reported that Prigozhin was one of the passengers on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow, killing all passengers.
According to the same source, the passengers also included Dmitry Utkin, one of the founders of the Wagner Group and a former Russian special forces officer.
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Source: CM Jornal
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