The plane crash in which Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, reportedly died, has not surprised US President Joe Biden, who, although he has not blamed the Russian president directly, has slipped that “not much happens in Russia without Putin be behind”.

“I don’t know for sure what happened, but I’m not surprised“, valued the Democratic president, who, to questions from the press, added:”Not much happens in Russia without Putin behind it.but I don’t know enough to know the answer.”

More direct has been the advisor to the Ukrainian Presidency Mykhailo Podolyak, who has asserted that “it is obvious that Putin spares no one” and that Prigozhin signed a “death warrant” for himself when he believed in the guarantees of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and in the word of the Russian president himself, after the riot he led against the Kremlin in June.

For Podolyak, the “elimination” of Prigozhin “it’s a sign of Putin to the Russian elites”, to whom he sends the message that “disloyalty equals death“.

In turn, the president Volodimir Zelensky has separated his country from the death of Wagner’s leader: “We have nothing to do with it”, assured the Ukrainian president, who added that “everybody knows who has something to do with it“.

international reactions

For his part, the French government spokesman, Olivier Véran, has pointed out that they do not yet know the circumstances of the plane crash, but has acknowledged that they may have “reasonable doubts“. Prigozhin, has emphasized, “was the man who did Putin’s dirty work” and leaves behind “a terrible disaster” in many parts of the world, including Africa and Ukraine. “His actions were inseparable from Putin’s policies, who entrusted him with responsibility for perpetrating these abuses at the head of the Wagner Group,” he said. riveted.

In turn, the German Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, has pointed out that we should fear that Russia “with or without Wagner” will continue with his “cynical game” in Ukraine and Africa. “We must not forget that Prigozhin and Wagner are responsible for horrific crimes against the Ukrainian people and in one country after another in Africa,” she said.

The Estonian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, has indicated that “if it is true”, what happened “shows that Putin will eliminate his opponents And that scares anyone thinking of expressing opinions different from their own.”