PARIS: France said Thursday that there were 'reasonable doubts' about the cause of the plane crash that presumably killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia's Wagner paramilitary group.
'We don't yet know the circumstances of this crash. We can have some reasonable doubts,' government spokesman Olivier Veran told France 2 television.This photograph posted on a Wagner linked Telegram channel @grey_zone on August 23, 2023 and which can not be independetly verified by the AFP, reportedly shows a the wreckage of burning plane near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region.
AFP PHOTO / Wagner linked Telegram channel @grey_zoneAsked about US President Joe Biden's claim that little 'happens in Russia that Putin is not behind,' Veran agreed that 'as a general rule, that's a truth that can be established.'Prigozhin was 'the man who did Putin's dirty work. What he has done is inseparable from the policies of Putin, who gave him responsibility to carry out abuses as the head of Wagner', he said.
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