Putin Ally Orchestrated Wagner Boss's Assassination: Report

Kremlin Dismisses Allegations as 'Pulp Fiction', Maintains Plane Crash was an Accident

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary boss, was killed in a plane crash orchestrated by Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally, Nikolai Patrushev, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
Prigozhin led a short-lived rebellion against Moscow’s military leadership in June, posing the biggest threat to Putin’s two-decade rule.
The plane crash was reportedly caused by a small bomb planted under the wing of Prigozhin's private jet while it was on the tarmac of a Moscow airport.
Patrushev, a former KGB officer and the powerful head of Russia’s security council, personally oversaw the planning of the operation.
The Kremlin has dismissed the allegations as 'pulp fiction' and previously rejected suggestions that Putin had ordered the assassination.