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The Kremlin said Western suggestions that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin had been killed on his orders were an "absolute lie", while refusing to definitively confirm the death of the head of the Wagner group, citing the need to wait for test results.
Russia's aviation authority said Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, was aboard a private plane that crashed on Wednesday night northwest of Moscow. There were no survivors from the plane crash.
President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed on Thursday and used the past tense when referring to Wagner's boss, breaking his silence on the incident which came exactly two months after the mercenary group's leader led a brief rebellion. towards Moscow.
Mr Putin cited some "preliminary information" that Prigozhin and his top associates in the Wagner mercenary group had all been killed, and while he praised it, he also said the Wagner leader had made some "serious mistakes".
Western politicians and analysts have suggested that it may have been former President Putin who ordered the assassination of Prigozhin in order to punish him for launching the June 23-34 uprising against the army leadership, which also represented the biggest challenge to the rule of Putin since he came to power in 1999.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said these allegations and many others like them were false.
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