Putin said in a televised statement during a meeting with the Acting President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denis Pushilin, that he had known Prigozhin since the beginning of the nineties, saying that he was “a talented man, but he made mistakes.”
Putin added that the contribution of Wagner fighters to the war against what he described as “neo-Nazism will not be forgotten.”
He explained that it is important to wait until the investigation committee into the plane crash has completed its work, pledging to proceed with the investigation of the facts “until the end.”
Russian sources revealed that the body of the leader of the Russian private military group, Wagner, was identified in a morgue, hours after confirming the crash of a private plane with 10 people on board, including the Wagner commander and founder.
And our reporter quoted those sources as saying that a body was also identified Dmitry Utkin Founder of the private military group and Prigogine’s assistant with height markings and tattoos.
The sources indicated the difficulty of visual identification of the bodies of the crash victims Prigozhin’s plane This is due to its “severe deformities” caused by fire and explosion.
Based on the “indirect” signs, experts confirmed that Prigozhin was among the victims, provided that the matter could be determined precisely through an examination DNA.
And the channel “Novosti Moskvy” confirmed in its account on “Telegram”, quoting its sources in the funeral authority in the city of Tver, north of the Russian capital. Moscow, where the plane fell, that Prigozhin’s body is already in the Tver Regional Office of Forensic Medical Examination.
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