The European Commission this Thursday dismissed speculation about the alleged death of Russian Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin following the crash of the plane he ended up flying, adding that “almost nothing that leaves Russia is credible.”
“Almost nothing that comes out of Russia these days is credible, so yes, we have seen the news of the plane crash in which the leader of the Wagner group was allegedly killed along with members of his entourage and crew, but, like much more in Russia It is very difficult for us to verify this, and therefore we cannot comment on it,” said Peter Stano, chief spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Asked at the institution’s daily press conference in Brussels about the position of the European Union (EU) regarding the incident, the spokesman dismissed “speculation about possible consequences” but recalled the “clear negative impact” of the Wagner Group, “especially in African countries.” countries”.
“The Wagner group was present and is present in different countries of the world, in various hot spots. The EU put Prigozhin and the Wagner group on the sanctions list for the violations they committed in many places, starting, of course, from Ukraine, Syria, Libya, African countries” , Peter Stano recalled.
The person in charge also expressed the hope that “this negative impact of the activities of the Wagner Group around the world will stop”, while noting that “this is not related” to the recent news.
Yevgeny Prigozhin will be on the passenger list of the plane of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, which crashed on Wednesday during a flight between Moscow and St. Petersburg and killed all 10 people on board, according to Russian authorities. .
On Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsia) reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group, was one of the passengers on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow, killing all passengers.
According to the same source, among the passengers was Dmitry Utkin, one of the founders of the Wagner Group and a former Russian special forces officer.
A channel on the Telegram social network, close to the Gray Zone group, published that Prigozhin and Utkin died “as a result of the actions of traitors to Russia.”
The Federal Air Transport Agency has already reported that Prigozhin’s name is on the list of the plane’s passengers and that it has initiated an investigation into the crash of the Embraer plane that occurred in the Tver region.
Russian emergency services previously reported that they recovered eight completely charred bodies from the crash site, but did not identify them.
The plane crashed in the Tver region, more than 100 kilometers north of the Russian capital, where there are no nearby airfields, on a flight between Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Mercenary leader Wagner, 62, fought with the regular Russian army in Ukraine and fought for a long time in Syria and several African countries, and two months ago he was the protagonist of a failed military mutiny against Moscow military leaders, in which he even took one one of the most important cities in southern Russia, Rostov-on-Don.
Through the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin agreed to withdraw his mercenaries and move his base to the former Soviet republic.
Accusing him of high treason, Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed him to the Kremlin.
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Source: CM Jornal
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