Boris Johnson accuses Putin of killing Prigozhin, reveals last thoughts of Wagner chief

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Jonhson accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of “killing” Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin. Johnson propagated his theory in an op-ed for Daily Mail on Saturday. Earlier this week, the head of the Russian mercenary group was presumed dead after an Embraer executive jet carrying 10 people crashed in North Moscow. The country’s air traffic authorities confirmed that Prigozhin’s name was on the passenger list of the plane that was en route to St. Petersburg.

“It can’t have been more than a few seconds between the explosion aboard the otherwise reliable Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, and the moment the Russian thug blacked out in his vertiginous acceleration to earth; and yet in that instant, I am certain that he knew with perfect clarity what had happened,” the ex-UK PM wrote. “He knew whose hidden hand was sending him 28,000 ft down, to be immolated with the rest of his Wagner group companions in a fireball in the countryside of the Tver region north of Moscow – and then on downwards, of course, for the shade of Prigozhin: down, down to Hades and the Tartarean pit below,” he added. Johnson, who has been an ardent supporter of Ukraine in the ongoing war, insisted that there can be “no peace negotiation” with the Russian President and went on to call him a "gangster". 

Prigozhin’s last thought was Putin 

In the op-ed, the conservative leader speculated what must be going through the Wagner Chief’s head in the latter’s final moments. The ex-British PM claimed that the last thought in Prigozhin’s skull was that this must be the Russian President’s ploy. He noted that Prighozin must have hurled profanities against Putin while his aircraft was going down. The plane crash came two months after the Wagner boss staged a brief coup in Russia. 

Meanwhile, the Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation,  Dmitry Peskov, vehemently denied such accusations, insisting that the Russian authorities are investigating the matter.  “All this is an absolute lie,” Peskov asserted in a press briefing on Friday, adding that the Kremlin is conducting all necessary examinations, including genetic testing to determine whether Prigozhin was killed, CNN reported. The UK PM went on to claim that the Russian President had been completely “exposed” after the incident. “The mask is now fully off. Putin stands exposed as a gangster, and his absurd televised ‘tribute’ to the dead Wagnerites is straight from the pages of ‘The Godfather,’” Johnson concluded.