On August 23, the news of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a private plane crash north of Moscow sent shockwaves across the world. Coming just two months after he led an audacious but short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership, suspicions swirled that his sudden demise was no accident.
Earlier today, the Kremlin dismissed rumours that it ordered the assassination of Prigozhin, as an “absolute lie”. Yet the timing and circumstances of the crash…