Putin Says Plane Crash Killing Prigozhin May Have Been Caused By Fighters High On Cocaine
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested that intoxicated fighters may have let off hand grenades under the influence of cocaine, causing the plane crash that killed their boss, Wagner mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, in August. He issued this statement while speaking at a meeting of the Valdai Club in the Black Sea city of Sochi, which was attended by oligarchs and apparatchiks. The Embraer Legacy 600 jet had crashed on August 23 while flying between Moscow and St. Petersburg. Putin claimed that there was no “external influence” on the jet. “The head of the Investigative Committee repor...