2023-08-27 15:35:36
The plane on which the leader of the paramilitary group was traveling crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region, north of Moscow.
Handout / Telegram/ @concordgroup_official / AFP Russia confirms death of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin
The death of Yevgueni Prigozhin, leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, whose plane crashed last Wednesday, 23, has been confirmed by genetic analysis. The information was released this Sunday, 27, by the Investigation Committee of Russia (CIR). After carrying out a “molecular genetic analysis”, it was established that the identities of the 10 victims whose bodies were found “correspond to the list” of the plane’s passengers and crew, including Prigozhin, the committee said in a statement. On Friday the 25th, the CIR found the black boxes of the aircraft manufactured by Embraer which crashed with ten people on board, including the head of the mercenary group Wagner. Several objects and documents were also recovered, which is essential “to clarify the circumstances of the air disaster”, according to the CIR. The Russian press speculated that someone might have stolen the black boxes to prevent it from being clarified whether the crash was a murder, as many vehicles in the country believe, and not an accident. When the plane hit the ground in the Tver region between Moscow and St Petersburg, all three crew members and seven passengers were charred. The Kremlin vehemently denied “speculation” that the Russian president Vladimir Putin would be behind the fall. “It’s all lies,” Russian presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his first teleconference news conference after a nearly three-week hiatus.
On Thursday, the 24th, Putin broke his silence on the plane crash of Prigozhin, someone he said he had known for 30 years and whom he praised. Two months ago, however, the Russian leader accused him of treason when Prigozhin rebelled against some sectors of the Kremlin and arrived with his troops about 200 kilometers from Moscow, but later received him in the Kremlin and agreed to transfer his mercenaries to neighboring Belarus. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said it made “no sense” for Russian authorities to kill Prigozhin and also ruled out the Kremlin chief’s involvement. “For a head of state, this is madness. And he is not a madman, ”he stated.
#Genetic #analysis #confirms #death #Prigozhin #leader #Wagner #Group