The Russian president says the plane may have blown up by hand grenades detonating inside the aircraft.
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin died two months after leading a brief mutiny against Russia’s defence establishment.
Putin suggested the plane was blown up from inside, saying that the head of Russia’s investigative committee had reported to him a few days ago. Putin did not give any more details about how a grenade or grenades could have been detonated on board, but said he thought investigators were wrong to have not carried out alcohol and drug tests on the bodies of those who died in the crash.He said that in searches of Wagner’s offices in St Petersburg, the FSB security service had found 10 billion roubles in cash and 5kg of cocaine.
The fate of Wagner has been unclear since Prigozhin’s mutiny and his death, after which Putin ordered Wagner fighters to sign contracts with the defence ministry which Prigozhin and many of his men had opposed. “And if they want to, then they will take part in the fighting. They do this on the basis of signed individual contracts, which was not the case before,” he added.
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