![]() ![]() ![]() If an explosion had taken place in the fuselage, at that height, with a pressurised cabin, the whole thing tends to explode. On the cause of the crash itself, Clarke says he believes Prigozhin's aircraft was targeted by a missile - despite reports that American officials think it was brought down by a bomb. ![]() "The fact is if, in some insane world, President Putin is not behind this, it's awfully convenient and I think the world is entitled to believe that this is what the Kremlin wanted," Clarke says. He said the claim that Mr Putin had not met Prigozhin recently is "factually untrue" as they were both at an Africa-Russia summit in St Petersburg late last month. "But of course they will say we had nothing to do with it and tap their nose rhetorically while they do it." In our 11.21 post we reported comments from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who called accusations it killed Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin an "absolute lie".ĭefence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke, former director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, gives his thoughts.Ĭlarke says it's likely that Vladimir Putin wants to be associated with the plane crash among the Russian people. ![]()
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