‘Hand grenade fragments’ discovered in corpses on Wagner boss’s downed aircraft – Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the plane carrying Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin did not crash because of an attack from outside, but because of hand grenades inside the aircraft.

Speaking at a meeting in Sochi, Putin said that the head of the investigative committee recently stated that they found pieces of hand grenades inside the victims’ bodies. No outside force affected the plane, and this is something that we know for sure.

Prigozhin, a person who tried to rebel against the Russian government, was one of the 10 people on a private plane that crashed in a field in northwest Moscow in August while heading to St. PetersburgPetersburg is a city. Everyone on the ship, including Prigozhin and his most important assistants, died.

The Russian leader, whose government says they were not involved in the crash, did not explain how grenades could have exploded on the plane. However, he believed that investigators should have tested the bodies of the victims for drugs or alcohol.

“I said again, in my opinion they should have done a test but they didn’t,” he said, also mentioning that Russian security forces found 10 billion in cash and 5 kilos of cocaine in Wagner’s office in St Petersburg before. ”

Putin said that the leader of the investigation committee stated that it is alright to “share this information with the public” because it is a widely known and proven truth.

The accident happened exactly two months after Prigozhin’s rebellion against Russia’s military leaders. This rebellion was a major threat to Putin’s leadership, something that hadn’t happened in many years.

In June, Prigozhin and his Wagner troops took control of important military places and went towards Moscow, where the Kremlin had sent heavily armed troops to the streets. However, right before they were about to fight, an agreement was made that stopped the rebellion and sent Prigozhin and his fighters to Belarus, which is a nearby country.

After the crash that caused a lot of deaths, Russian officials started thinking about different possibilities related to the incident. One of these possibilities was the chance that it was done on purpose, according to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for the Kremlin, who spoke to reporters at the end of August.

US and Western intelligence officials had told CNN that they thought the crash was done on purpose. The President of the United States, Joe Biden, even said that Putin might have had something to do with it. “In August, he said that he wasn’t surprised, although he didn’t have definite information about what happened. ”

Peskov said that the Kremlin had nothing to do with the plane’s destruction and that any rumors about it are completely false.