24 August 2023 at 18:00 Putin offers condolences to Prigozhin’s family Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin, reports Reuters. Putin says he has known Prigozhin since the 1990s, and said he was a skilled businessman, but that he made some mistakes, reports AFP. Prigozhin, who led the mercenary Wagner group, died in a plane crash along with nine others when his private plane crashed just north of Moscow on Wednesday. Putin says the incident is being investigated, but that it may take time before we find out what happened.
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