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Kremlin says speculations in the media that Moscow was responsible for Evgeny Prigozhin reported plane crash are Western lies
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday dismissed what he called unfounded speculation by some media in the West that Moscow may have been behind the crash of Wagner head Evgeny Prigozhin’s plane.
“There is a lot of speculation about that plane crash and the tragic deaths of the passengers, among whom was Evgeny Prigozhin,” Peskov told reporters at the daily press briefing.
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko © Alexey Danichev; RIA Novosti
“In the West, all that speculation is being presented from a certain angle. It’s all a total lie.” Peskov asked the media to rely on facts, “which as of this moment are few, as they have to be uncovered by the ongoing investigation.”
He also reminded reporters that President Putin had promised a thorough investigation, including the DNA testing of the remains.“There are no official results as of yet. The moment they are ready to be made public, they will be,” Peskov said.
The Embraer 135BJ Legacy 600 private jet was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg on Wednesday when it crashed in Tver Region.
There were ten people on board, seven passengers and three crew members. None survived. Authorities are still working to identify the bodies.
Prigozhin’s name was on the passenger manifest, along with Dmitry ‘Wagner’ Utkin, whose call sign gave the private military company its moniker. Officially, however, the Wagner Group PMC does not exist.
Putin commented on Prigozhin’s reported death on Thursday, calling him a man of “complicated destiny” whom he had known since the early 1990s.
The Russian president touched on Prigozhin’s business deals in both Russia and Africa and thanked him and Wagner for what they had done in the Ukraine conflict.
He did not touch on the failed Wagner mutiny at the end of June, after which much of the outfit was disbanded, with the remainder moving to Belarus, along with Prigozhin.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told journalists on Friday that Prigozhin, never sought security guarantees from Minsk.
The Belarusian leader stressed that the Wagner chief had never asked him to deal with any aspects related to his personal security.
Lukashenko also insisted that Putin had nothing to do with the incident that apparently led to Prigozhin’s death, despite sections of the media attempting to pin the blame on the Russian leader.
“I can’t say who did it. I wouldn’t even become a lawyer for my older brother,” Lukashenko said.
“However, I know Putin. He is prudent, very calm, and is even rather slow in making decisions on other, less complex issues.”
“That’s why I can’t imagine that Putin is behind this,” the Belarusian leader added, claiming that if the plane crash was the result of sabotage, it was “too rough” and an example of “unprofessional work.”
Investigators have launched a probe into the incident but no official statements have yet been made as to the cause of the crash.
However, debris belonging to the Embraer aircraft has been found kilometers away from the main crash site, indicating that the plane may have fragmented at high altitude.
Source Reuters/TASS/RT
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