The Kremlin has slammed accusations that it killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as an “absolute lie” — as top US military brass cautioned that confirming the mercenary leader…
On Friday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov clapped back at Western insinuations that the plane was downed on Putin’s orders.
Preliminary US intelligence reports suggest that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private plane was brought down by an internal blast, presumably killing the warlord and nine others onboard.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also hit out at Biden Friday for saying earlier this week that “Even on things like this, eventually you figure it out,” he told reporters Thursday, before adding, “I can assure you that, to my knowledge, the United States had nothing to do with any of this whatsoever.”
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