US intelligence: Intentional explosion brought down Wagner chief Prigozhin's plane

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WASHINGTON: A preliminary US intelligence assessment concluded that an intentional explosion caused the plane crash presumed to have killed a mercenary leader who was eulogized Thursday by Vladimir Putin, even as suspicions grew that the Russian president was the architect of the assassination.

One of the US and Western officials who described the initial assessment said it determined that Yevgeny Prigozhin was 'very likely' targeted and that the explosion falls in line with Putin's 'long history of trying to silence his critics.

President Joe Biden, speaking to reporters Wednesday, said he believed Putin was behind the crash, though he acknowledged that he did not have information verifying his belief.'I don't know for a fact what happened, but I'm not surprised,' Biden said. 'There's not much that happens in Russia that Putin's not behind.

 

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