Nothing seems to indicate that Prigozhin’s plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, says the Pentagon

Nothing seems to indicate that the plane carrying the head of the Russian militia Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhinhas been shot down by a surface-to-air missile, said Thursday the Pentagon.

The US military does not have “of any information that suggests that it was a surface-to-air missile” what caused the crash of the plane, declared to the press the spokesman for the North American Ministry of Defense Pat Ryderwhen qualifying as “inaccurate” the versions that allude to that hypothesis.

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General Ryder added that he could not share information about the causes of the event, the subject of much speculation.

The United States believes that Yevgeny Prigozhin died in the catastrophe. “We estimate, based on a number of factors, that he probably diedRyder said.

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According to the Russian president Vladimir PutinPrigozhin was “a man with a complicated destiny, who made serious mistakes in his life, but who obtained the results he wanted”. In a speech broadcast on television, Putin presented his “sincere condolences” to the relatives of the victims of the plane crash.

Source: Elcomercio

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