The White House speculated that the Russian government was behind the apparent assassination of Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, despite remarks from Russian President Vladimir Putin claiming otherwise.
“I don’t have a new assessment for you, but it seems pretty evident what happened here … If this is what it seems to be, this was certainly was not just predictable, but it was predicted,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday.
“We all know the Kremlin has a long history of killing its opponents,” she added, claiming the incident happened because of the “dysfunction” within Russia.
Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary company, was listed as being on an airplane that crashed over Moscow on Wednesday. Russian reports say DNA evidence has confirmed the…
