Russian President Vladimir Putin responded on Thursday to the news that Wagner paramilitary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who failed in his attempt to overthrow the Russian government back in June, was killed in a plane crash this week, saying that Prigozhin made “serious mistakes.”
Video showed the plane that Prigozhin was on falling from the sky over Russia with a plume of white smoke hanging in the area where an explosion happened that caused the crash.
“I knew Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early ’90s,” Putin said. “He was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life, but he achieved the right results. He was a talented person, a talented businessman, he worked not only in our country, and worked with results, but also abroad, in Africa, in particular.”
“He was involved there with oil, gas, precious metals and stones,” he said. “As far as I know, he just returned yesterday from Africa. He met some officials here. But what is…