Russian officials said Wednesday that the plane crash that reportedly killed mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been brought down deliberately, with the remarks representing the first hint by the Kremlin that Mr. Prigozhin’s death may have been an assassination.
The Kremlin has broken its silence on allegations that it was behind a plane crash that presumably killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin amid reports of a preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment that the aircraft was downed by an internal explosion.