Article 6E43C Biden points finger at Putin as Prigozhin’s reported death seen as a warning to ‘elites’

Biden points finger at Putin as Prigozhin’s reported death seen as a warning to ‘elites’

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Pjotr Sauer and Graham Russell
from World news | The Guardian on (#6E43C)

Joe Biden not surprised' by apparent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner founder, in plane crash, while Kremlin and Russian president stay silent

Joe Biden has strongly suggested Vladimir Putin's involvement in the apparent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, as Ukrainian officials interpreted the incident as a warning to Russian elites" and flowers were laid for the Wagner chief outside the organisation's St Petersburg headquarters.

I don't know for a fact what happened, but I'm not surprised," the US president said after a briefing after the crash of Prigozhin's private jet between Moscow and St Petersburg. There's not much that happens in Russia that Putin's not behind. But I don't know enough to know the answer."

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