The President of Ukraine considered this Thursday that the alleged death of the leader of the Wagner Group is “a good thing” for Ukraine and even joked about it.
“Of course it’s a good thing for Ukraine. We have nothing to do with this, we know who did it,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, in the first reaction to the alleged death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, at a joint press conference with his Portuguese counterpart. . , Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, at the Presidential Palace, in kyiv.
And with the humor that he resorts to sometimes, which recalls his past as a comedian, he joked on the subject: “When I asked the partners for air support, this was not what I had thought.”
On Wednesday, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) said Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, was one of the passengers on the private plane that crashed north of Moscow, killing everyone on board.
According to the same source, among the passengers was also Dmitry Utkin, one of the founders of the Wagner group and a former officer of the Russian special forces.
Source: TSF
