Former Russian MP: Not Putin, Shoigu ordered the assassination of Prigozhin

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Former deputy of the Russian Duma Ilya Ponomarev said that the order for the liquidation of Yevgeny Prigozhin was not given by President Vladimir Putin, but by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Ilya Ponomarev stated that the S-300 missile systems (with which Prigozhin’s plane was allegedly shot down north of Moscow) are controlled by the Ministry of Defense, not the FSB, which makes the version that Putin is the guarantor implausible, Fakti reported .

According to him, it is difficult to judge whether Putin knew about Shoigu’s plan. However, it is clear that Putin had his own plans for PMC „Wagner“, so the death of Prigozhin did not benefit him at this time.

„Prigozhin revolted above all against Shoigu and Gerasimov,“ recalls Ponomarev. Two months ago, when Prigozhin organized a military coup in Russia, he said he wanted to overthrow the country’s military leadership, but did not mention Putin. His war was against Shoigu because the Ministry of War refused to supply Wagner arms and ammunition to the front in Ukraine.

„Whether Putin was aware or not – we don’t know at the moment…

But all the information I have suggests that Putin had various plans for a private Wagner army, including provocations in Poland and Lithuania… And now these plans fell apart,“ said the Russian opposition politician.

According to him, Shoigu has put Putin in front of a fait accompli. Perhaps Putin even started to respect Shoigu more to some extent. In Russia, such executions of inconvenient people are common. A number of contract killings were carried out in exactly the same way. Many of them were even done openly and publicly to send a signal to people who would potentially oppose the power in the Kremlin.

Shoigu knew that he would not be punished by Putin.

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