Russian President Vladimir Putin praised mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin as a talented businessman on Thursday and said he wished to express sincere condolences to the families of those who died in a plane crash a day earlier.
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Putin added in televised comments that it was necessary to await the outcome of the official investigation into the crash, in which all 10 people on board were killed, saying the probe would take some time.Portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, and Dmitry Utkin, a shadowy figure who managed Wagner's operations and allegedly served in Russian military intelligence, are seen at the makeshift memorial in front of the PMC Wagner office in Novosibirsk, Russia on Thursday.
Russian investigators opened a criminal probe but there has been no official word from Moscow on what may have caused Wednesday evening's crash or whether Prigozhin was killed. The passenger manifest included Prigozhin and his second-in-command Dmitry Utkin. Prigozhin, 62, was the head of the Wagner mercenary group and a self-declared enemy of the army top brass over what he said was its incompetent prosecution of Russia's war in Ukraine."I had known Prigozhin for a very long time, since the start of the '90s. He was a man with a difficult fate, and he made serious mistakes in life," Putin said.
After serving a long prison sentence in the 1980s, Prigozhin started out selling hotdogs in his hometown of St. Petersburg. He soon began to build up a stake in a chain of supermarkets, and eventually opened his own restaurant and catering company.
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