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Putin's oldest ally was the mastermind behind the assassination of Wagner warlord Prigozhin, report says
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The death of the mutinous Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash was an assassination masterminded by Nikolai Patrushev, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In reality, the former Russian intelligence officer told the Journal, Patrushev gave orders to his assistant in August to design an operation that would kill Prigozhin.
A small bomb was put under the plane’s wing during a delay when safety inspectors were looking at the aircraft, Western intelligence officials told The Journal.
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesperson, told Reuters he would not comment on the story, adding: “Lately, unfortunately, The Wall Street Journal has been very fond of producing pulp fiction.”
The uprising ended before it reached Moscow, with a peace deal that involved Prigozhin leaving Russia for its neighbor Belarus, a Russian ally.
Hours after the crash, a European who was involved in intelligence gathering and had back-channel communications with the Kremlin asked one of its officials what happened, The Journal reported.
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