The Kremlin says Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane crash was no accident—and is already hinting that it may seek to place blame on the West.
The Kremlin has already sought to pour cold water on the idea thatwas behind the killing, apparently using the troll army to muddy the waters over who actually downed the plane and what motives they may have had to carry out the brazen attack.
Maria also cast suspicion on Ukraine’s intelligence services, likely citing remarks from Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, who stated days before Prigozhin was killed that Russia’s Federal Security Service had been tasked with“Budanov spoke out that Prigozhin had definitely died, how could they know the investigation before, and since they are supervised by the West, it immediately becomes clear where,” the account said.
Launching narratives that someone else was behind a deliberate attempt to kill Prigozhin is a classic Russian attempt to inject uncertainty into the public discourse about what is ground truth, said Larry Pfeiffer, a former senior director of the White House Situation Room and chief of staff to the director of the CIA.
Putin is likely aware of the deluge of support for Prigozhin and doesn’t want to alienate that tranche of the Russian public by claiming responsibility for Prigozhin’s death, said Herbst. Putin is likely backing the calculated effort to make it look unclear, at least for now, who exactly was behind the crash, to divert attention away from himself.
And while some of the narrative from the Kremlin might be aimed at the Russian public, Putin might also have his sights set on giving cover to other countries that don’t want to be caught outright criticizing the Kremlin by providing alternative culprits for the fiery takedown of Prigozhin. “There is a calculated effort, a nuanced effort, to let it be clear in certain circles that Putin cannot be crossed. Prigozhin paid the price for crossing Putin,” Herbst said.
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