Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday made his first comments on the death of mercenary leader Yevgeny Priogzhin.
Putin told journalists at the Kremlin Thursday that Prigozhin was “a man of complicated destiny.”
Prigozhin used his profits to co-found a private military company called the Wagner Group in partnership with a former Russian special forces operator named Dmitry Utkin, who was also reportedly killed in the plane crash on Wednesday.“He’d made serious mistakes in his life, but also got results – for himself as well as our common cause, when I asked it of him in these last months,” Putin said, alluding to Wagner mercenaries participating in his bloody invasion of Ukraine.
Putin referenced the latter campaign when he hailed Prigozhin as a “talented businessman” who knew his way around oil, gas, precious metals, and gems. Others might say Prigozhin was a landlocked pirate whose gunmen had a knack for ending up in control of valuable African resources. Prigozhin eagerlyPutin“sincere condolences to the families of all the victims” of the plane crash and brushed aside deep worldwide suspicions that he ordered Prigozhin’s death.
Another post on a Telegram messaging channel linked to Wagner threatened to march on Moscow again if Prigozhin is truly dead.
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