12 minutes agoRussia says for the first time: The Prigozy aircraft may have been deliberately knocked down
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The Kremlin said on Wednesday that investigators are considering the possibility of the plane, which was carrying chief mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin, was deliberately crashed. This is the first time Russia has so clearly acknowledged that Pgozhin was probably deliberately killed. “It is clear that they are being considered [...]
This is the first time Russia has so clearly acknowledged that Pgozhin was probably deliberately killed.
It's clear that different versions are being considered, including the version "you know what I'm talking about, to say, a deliberate wickedness”, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on August 30th when he was asked about the investigation.
Asked whether the International Civil Aviation Organisation would investigate the plane crash, Peskov said the circumstances made the investigation discern, although he acknowledged that investigators have not yet come to a formal conclusion as to what exactly caused its crash.
“Waiting for results of the Russian probe”, Peskov stressed.
The private Embraer plane, which Pigozini was traveling from St Petersburg to Moscow, crashed north of the Russian capital, killing all 10 people on board on August 23rd.
The trigger has not been found yet, but villagers near the site of the event have told Reuters they had heard a powerful explosion and then watched the plane fall to the ground.
The plane crashed exactly two months after Prigozhin took over from Russia's southern city of Rostov in late June, launching a uprising that shocked Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.
Russia has announced to Brazilian authorities that it will not investigate the collapse of the aircraft produced in Brazil, Embraer, according to international rules “now”.
I asked about it, Peskov said: “First, the investigation has begun, the Detective Commission is engaged in this”.
In this case, it cannot be about any international aspect”, Peskov said.
The day after the plane crashed, Putin expressed his condolences to the families of those killed and said he had known Pgoxhin for a very long time since the early 1990s.
He [Prigozin] was a bad-lucked man, and he made serious mistakes in his life”, Putin said, until he described him as a talented businessman.
The Kremlin has dismissed the suggestions of some Western politicians and commentators that Putin had ordered Pigozin's murder of revenge, calling them “absoluteally denial”.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said he was not surprised by Pgozyni's death and that there are few things in Russia that Putin is not behind.
