{"id":2011006,"date":"2023-08-24T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-european-officials-have-reasonable-doubts-about-cause-of-wagner-leaders-death\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:59:11","slug":"prigozhin-plane-crash-european-officials-have-reasonable-doubts-about-cause-of-wagner-leaders-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-european-officials-have-reasonable-doubts-about-cause-of-wagner-leaders-death\/","title":{"rendered":"European officials have doubts about cause of Wagner leader&#8217;s death in Prigozhin plane crash."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprigozhin-plane-crash-european-officials-have-reasonable-doubts-about-cause-of-wagner-leaders-death%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011006&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian Paramilitary Chief Yevgeny \u2064Prigozhin&#8217;s Apparent Assassination Raises Doubts<\/h2>\n<p>The reported assassination of Russian paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has left Western officials skeptical, given \u2064their reluctance to trust Russia&#8217;s official statements.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t yet know the circumstances of this crash,&#8221; French\u2062 government spokesman Olivier Veran said Thursday. &#8220;We\u2064 can have some\u200d reasonable doubts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prigozhin, the\u200b leader\u2063 of the renowned Wagner \u200dGroup mercenary force, died in a plane \u2062crash on Wednesday, along with his\u200c senior associates, according to Russian authorities. While Russian aviation officials quickly confirmed\u2064 Prigozhin&#8217;s\u200c presence\u200c on the plane, European officials, who \u200bhave been wary of Russian deceptions, remained cautious.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I understand that\u200c Russia is claiming that Prigozhin has died,&#8221; said outgoing Latvian\u200b Prime Minister Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Kari\u0146\u0161. &#8220;I&#8217;ll let the facts establish themselves&#8230; Either he has been killed or he has not been \u200dkilled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the uncertainty, many\u2064 observers\u2063 and analysts\u2064 believe that Prigozhin has indeed been killed, based on \u2064information \u200cfrom Wagner-affiliated social media channels and Russian government officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not clear\u200c who would be lying in this case. If\u200d Prighozin staged it&#8230; \u200cwhy would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-see-economic-chaos-as-opportunity-for-more-government-spending-welfare-programs\/\" title=\"Democrats See Economic Chaos As Opportunity For More Government Spending, Welfare Programs\">officials participate<\/a>\u200d in this?&#8221; said Russian\u2063 economist Konstantin Sonin. &#8220;Imagine\u2062 that this \u2063is staged&#8230;\u200c it&#8217;s like a bad novel \u200djoined into a worse novel, right? Why\u2064 would they conspire [together]?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash \u200dremains unclear, with initial reports\u200b suggesting that\u2063 the plane was shot down.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The footage we&#8217;ve seen\u2063 so far of the plane, it\u2064 looks as though maybe \u2064one of its wings was \u2064clipped off,&#8221; said Rob Lee from the \u2062Foreign Policy Research Institute. \u200b&#8221;There are sounds\u200c that probably have \u2063explosions in the air, from eyewitnesses, consistent with the use of air defense. And the fact that [the senior Wagner leaders were on board],\u200d that would\u2064 be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prigozhin-plane-crash-european-officials-have-reasonable-doubts-about-cause-of-wagner-leaders-death\/\" title=\"European officials have doubts about cause of Wagner leader's death in Prigozhin plane crash.\">pretty massive coincidence<\/a> to say that this occurred and it\u200b was an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The international uncertainty surrounding the details of the crash was \u200devident on Thursday. While\u200b some unnamed U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schiff-and-swalwell-went-all-in-on-the-dubious-russia-bounty-story\/\" title=\"Schiff And Swalwell Went All In On The Dubious Russia Bounty Story\">officials believed<\/a> that a surface-to-air missile from Russia caused the crash, others \u2063suggested that a bomb or \u200dsabotage \u2063may have been involved.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our initial assessment is that\u200d it&#8217;s likely Prigozhin was killed. We&#8217;re continuing to assess the situation,&#8221; said Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the \u2064Pentagon&#8217;s press secretary. \u2063&#8221;The \u200cpress reporting \u200cstating that\u2063 there \u2062was \u2064some type of surface-to-air missile that took \u2062down the plane, we assess that \u200dinformation \u200bto be inaccurate. Again,\u2062 nothing to indicate, no information to suggest that there was a surface-to-air missile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russian\u200d President Vladimir \u200cPutin has promised\u200d a thorough investigation into the &#8220;tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Regarding the \u200bairplane crash, first of all I \u2062would like to express my sincere condolences \u200bto the families of all those who died,&#8221; said Putin. &#8220;I\u2064 knew Prigozhin for a very long time, since \u200bthe early &#8217;90s. He\u2063 was\u2063 a man of complicated\u2063 fate, and he made serious mistakes in his\u200d life, but he achieved the right results&#8230; \u2063It\u200c will \u200dbe conducted\u2062 in full and brought to a conclusion. There is \u200cno doubt about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In June, Prigozhin led a mutiny of Wagner troops against the Russian military establishment but called off the revolt after one day and appeared\u200b to have \u200caccepted exile in \u2062Belarus. This episode further highlights Putin&#8217;s unreliability as a \u200cnarrator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen the report about the plane\u2062 crash which allegedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the \u200dWagner \u2064group, alongside members of his entourage and crew members,&#8221; said European\u200b Union spokesman Peter Stano. &#8220;But again, like so many\u200d other things \u2064in Russia, this is very hard to verify for us, and therefore not for \u2063us to comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western officials remain skeptical of Russia&#8217;s official statements regarding the apparent assassination of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian paramilitary chief. French government spokesman Olivier Veran expressed doubts about the circumstances of the crash, stating that there are reasonable doubts. 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