An investigation by the American daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ), published this Friday, attributes the mastermind of the plan to kill Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, to Nikolai Patrushev, a former spy close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. .
Prigozhin died on August 23, aged 62, in a plane crash with nine others on board, including senior officials from his paramilitary company, on a flight between Moscow and St. Petersburg after leading a mutiny against the Russian military leadership that was aborted. when columns of vehicles of his people were already on the outskirts of Moscow.
Both Ukraine (a country under Russian invasion since February 2022) and the West suspect that the plane crash was not an accident but an attack. This thesis is refuted by Moscow, which, despite the fact that it has not yet disclosed the progress of the investigation into the crash in which Prigozhin died, speaks vaguely about possible violations of flight safety rules, and Putin more specifically mentioned a grenade explosion on board, but denying the intention to kill his ex ally.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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