In the United States, it is believed that the leader of the Wagner PMC militants, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a plane crash that occurred in the Tver region of Russia.
The Pentagon said that there is still no exact information about what exactly caused the plane crash in which the leader of the Russian militants of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died. About this on Thursday, August 24, in a briefing expressed Pentagon press secretary, Air Force Brigadier General Pat Ryder.
He emphasized that it was too early to say that the plane crashed because of the work of the Russian air defense.
“We believe this information is inaccurate,” Ryder said.
He said that currently, the details of the plane crash are still being studied in the United States.
“Obviously, we know that the Wagner group has many tentacles, some of them military, some criminals in Africa. I don’t think anyone can underestimate the danger of this group or its remnants,” the brigadier general emphasized.
Ryder added that the United States would continue to monitor the actions of the “Wagnerites” in Africa.
Recall that on August 23, Prigozhin’s Embraer Legacy 600 business jet crashed in the Tver region of the Russian Federation. There were 10 people on board the plane – seven passengers, including Prigozhin himself and Wagner PMC commander Dmitry Utkin, and three crew members.
Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the death of the leader of the “Wagnerites”. The Kremlin leader called Prigozhin “a man of hard luck” and said that although he “made mistakes”, he “still achieved the desired results.”
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Source: korrespondent
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