Bizarre: Putin Says Wagner Chief Died While Playing With Grenade On Plane

This is a bizarre way to die…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that grenade explosive traces were discovered in the remains of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Putin shared “Fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the victims of the air disaster. There was no external impact on the plane.”

He then hinted the Wagner chief was drunk when the grenades exploded.

Putin stated “A blood test for alcohol was not done,” Putin said. “Even though we know that after the famous events in the (Wagner) company in Saint Petersburg, the FSB (security service) found not only 10 billion in cash, but also five kilograms of cocaine.”

❗Prigozhin’s plane crashed because the #Wagner leadership got drunk, then set off a hand grenade during the flight.

~Putin pic.twitter.com/m6SiGpXN37

— АЗОВ South (@Azovsouth) October 5, 2023

Per Breitbart:

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Thursday that Wagner private army boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and his men died when, while probably drunk and high, they accidentally set off a grenade during a flight that exploded and killed all on board in August.

Putin has blocked international investigators from examining the wreckage of the flight; his claims were based on a Russian government assessment of the remains of the plane.

Yevgeny Prigozhin – the long-time Putin ally who led one of the world’s largest and most active private military companies and who turned his army from the war in Ukraine to march to Moscow in protest, he said, at mismanagement at the Ministry of Defence – reportedly died in August in a plane crash over Russia. Observers, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, began to suggest almost immediately that the crash was not an accident, but a mopping-up operation against the leaders of the mutiny by the Putin regime. Some suggested an anti-air missile and planted bomb aboard destroyed the plane.

Putin, speaking in Moscow on Thursday, claimed he had been briefed by the “head of the Investigative Committee” and blamed Prigozhin himself for the crash based on the evidence they provided him.

Putin alleges Prigozhin's plane crashed because Wagner leadership got drunk, accidentally setting off a grenade during the flight:

Translation from Sochi press conference footage provided by https://t.co/JqSM5ckqp1 pic.twitter.com/HTNX5okAE2

— Valuetainment Media (@ValuetainmentTV) October 5, 2023

Check out what CBS shared:

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that explosive traces were discovered in the remains of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and his crew after their plane crashed over Russia in August. Prigozhin’s plane crashed between Moscow and Saint Petersburg in August, two months after he led a brief mutiny against Russia’s top military brass.

Putin’s comments were the first significant update on Russia’s investigation into the crash.

“The head of the Investigative Committee reported to me a few days ago,” Putin said at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. “Fragments of hand grenades were found in the bodies of the victims of the air disaster. There was no external impact on the plane.”

There was no way to independently verify Putin’s statement.

Russian investigators have said they are probing all possible scenarios surrounding the crash, including premeditated murder.

Private army boss Prigozhin and his men were probably drunk and high, and accidentally set off a grenade, Russian President Putin implied. https://t.co/27TIqWHXNG

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 6, 2023