Boris Johnson: Prigozhin’s last thought was Putin!

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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “must have killed” Wagner’s boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, and said there can be no peace negotiations with Putin over Ukraine.

In an editorial for the Daily Mail on Saturday, Johnson speculated on Prigozhin’s final moments, just days after a plane believed to be carrying the Wagner chief crashed in a field northwest of Moscow on its way to St Petersburg.

It is not yet clear what caused the plane crash, but US and Western intelligence officials who spoke with CNN believe that the accident was deliberate.

“No more than a few seconds could have elapsed between the explosion on board the Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet and the moment the Russian thug lost consciousness during his rounded acceleration towards the ground; however, I am certain at that moment that he knew Quite clearly what happened.

“He knew whose invisible hand was sending him down to 28,000 feet, to be immolated with the rest of his comrades in Wagner’s group in a fireball in the Tver countryside north of Moscow—and then down, of course, in Prigozhin’s shadow: down to hell and the Tartarian pit below.”

He went on to say that the man allegedly “behind Prigozhin’s murder” is “the same man who authorized, for example, the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal in the UK”.

As the blast sucked the air out of the cabin, I bet the last thought in the domed dome of Prigozhin’s skull was “Putin!”, preceded by one of the many profanities of the former prisoner and sausage seller. Johnson wrote fluently.

The plane crash that is believed to have killed Prigozhin came exactly two months after Wagner’s chief launched a short-lived insurrection in Russia.

Experts questioned whether the Wagner Group would have been able to survive without Prigozhin.

The Kremlin said on Friday that all necessary examinations, including genetic tests, are under way to determine whether Prigozhin was killed in Wednesday’s accident. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has strongly denied allegations that Russian authorities may be involved. “It’s all an absolute lie,” he added.

On Thursday, Putin said he had known Prigozhin “for a very long time” and described him as a “talented man, a talented businessman”.

In his editorial, Johnson called Prigozhin’s act “the height of arrogance” when he thought Putin would forgive him for his rival in his government.

“As we watch the horrifying footage of that plane plummeting towards the ground, we are witnessing something historic. And that is the violent liquidation – on television – of his enemies by a sitting head of state. I can think of no other example of such ostentatious and unrestrained brutality from Before a world leader – not in our lifetime.”

The mask has now been completely removed. Putin stands exposed as a gangster, and his ludicrous televised “tribute” to the Wagner dead came straight from the pages of The Godfather.