Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed his “condolences” over a aircraft crash that killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, describing him as a person who made errors however “achieved outcomes”.
An investigation is presently underway into what prompted Wednesday’s crash, which got here precisely two months after Wagner’s short-lived rise up in opposition to Moscow’s navy management.
“To begin with I need to categorical phrases of honest condolences to the households of all of the victims,” Putin stated in a televised assembly, calling the incident a “tragedy”.
“I knew Prigozhin for a really very long time, for the reason that early 90s. He was a person of sophisticated destiny, and he made severe errors in his life, however he achieved the fitting outcomes,” Putin added.
He stated that an investigation had been launched into the crash, and that “it can take a while”.
“It will likely be carried out in full and dropped at a conclusion. There is no such thing as a doubt about that,” Putin stated, in footage exhibiting a gathering with the Russian-installed head of the Donetsk area Denis Pushilin.
The circumstances of the crash, which claimed the lives of a few of Prigozhin’s shut entourage, have prompted livid hypothesis a few attainable assassination.
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