Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned in the present day, Thursday, that his nation isn’t concerned within the demise of Yevgeny Prigozhin, commander of the Russian non-public navy group Wagner.
The Ukrainian Interfax information company quoted Zelensky as telling reporters: “We have now nothing to do with this. Everybody is aware of who has one thing to do with it.”
Poland’s prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, mentioned he anticipated the Wagner Group to now pose a better menace as it will come underneath the management of Russian President Vladimir Putin after Prigozhin’s demise.
“The Wagner Group has come underneath Putin’s management,” Morawiecki mentioned at a press convention. “Let everybody reply the query for themselves – will the danger be better or much less? .. For me, this can be a rhetorical query.”
Objects from the Wagner Assortment (archived)
This comes whereas French authorities spokesman Olivier Veran mentioned, on Thursday, that there are “affordable doubts” in regards to the “circumstances” of Prigozhin’s aircraft crash.
And after US President Joe Biden thought-about that “issues not often occur in Russia with out Putin being behind them,” Veran mentioned in response to questions from the “France 2” public tv station, “That is, in precept, a truth that may be acknowledged.”
He continued, “We don’t but know the circumstances during which this crash occurred, and we will have affordable suspicions,” with out pointing the finger explicitly on the Kremlin within the accident that killed ten folks, together with Prigozhin and his assistant.
Ferran mentioned that Prigozhin is, above all, “the executor of soiled duties for Putin’s account, and what he dedicated can’t be separated from Putin’s coverage, who entrusted him with accountability for these abuses on the head of the Wagner Group” of mercenaries.
And he careworn that “Prigozhin leaves behind massacres, leaves behind chaos in a big a part of the world, Africa, Ukraine and Russia itself come to my thoughts.”
In June, Prigozhin led a rebel towards the navy management and Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu, throughout which he briefly took management of navy websites in southern Russia and marched on the head of his forces in direction of Moscow earlier than stopping his motion inside hours.
Putin referred to as him a “traitor”, with out mentioning him by title.
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