Russian President Vladimir Putin has indirectly confirmed the death of the Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, the day after the crash of a jet that authorities said he was travelling in.
In an apparent tribute to his former close confidante – whose fighters played a crucial combat role in Ukraine – Mr Putin called Mr Prigozhin a “talented man,” Russian news agencies reported.
“He was a man of a complicated fate. He made some serious mistakes in his life, but he also achieved the needed results – both for himself and, when I asked him to, for the common cause,” Mr Putin added.
