2023-08-25 13:08:07
Vladimir Putin responsible for the death of Evgheny Prigozhin? ”An absolute lie”. This is how Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov defined the ”many speculations in the West” about the Kremlin’s involvement ”in the tragic death of the passengers of the plane” which crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region, ”including Yevgeny Prigozhin”, founder of Wagner and leader of the mercenary company.
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A clear denial that comes the day after Putin’s condolences for the death of Wagner’s men and its founder described as a “talented man who made serious mistakes”.
”It is too early” to say whether Putin will attend the funeral of Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, added Peskov, underlining that ”we don’t know how long the necessary investigations and investigations will last”. In the press conference Peskov said that ”since we don’t know how long the necessary investigations and the necessary documents related to the investigations will last, now we don’t know what the date of the funeral will be. Therefore it is impossible to speak” of a possible participation of Putin. “The only thing I can say is that the president has a pretty busy work schedule right now,” Peskov said.
”I don’t know anything about what Wagner’s future will be, I can’t tell you anything”, but ”I can say that the group has made a great contribution to carrying out the military operation in Ukraine, as the president recalled” Russian Vladimir Putin. And assuring that ”the heroism of these people will never be forgotten”.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has defined the words of US President Joe Biden regarding the death of the founder of the Wagner group as “unacceptable”. “I’m not surprised,” Biden said on the day of the plane crash. ” Not much happens in Russia without Putin being behind it ”, he added.
“It is not for the US president to talk about tragic events of this kind,” Ryabkov said as quoted by state news agency Tass, adding that such a speech demonstrates Washington’s contempt for diplomacy.
Meanwhile, as reported by the Ria Novosti agency, the wreckage of the Embraer plane has been removed near the village of Kuzhenkino, in the Tver region, in Russia.
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