‘Everyone Knows Whom This Concerns’: Zelenskyy Denies Ukraine’s Involvement In Prigozhin’s Death

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had “nothing to do” with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death while remarking that people know “who this concerns”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday denied his country having any role in the presumed death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash while indicating the Kremlin’s responsibility. He said Ukraine had “nothing to do” with the crash while remarking that people know “who this concerns”.

"We have nothing to do with this situation, that's for sure. I think everyone knows who this concerns," he told reporters in Kyiv, as quoted by news agency AFP.

“You know, when Ukraine spoke and appealed to the countries of the world about planes, we didn’t mean this. We meant something completely different and we wanted support, although, probably, it will also help in some sense of the word," the president added, as per Russian news agency Interfax.

On Wednesday, a private jet on which Prigozhin was recorded as a passenger crashed between Moscow and Saint Petersburg prompting the reports of his presumed death.

‘Putin Never Forgives…’: Zelenskyy’s Aide On Prigozhin Death  

According to the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (UNIAN), Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the head of the Office of the Ukrainian President, claimed that it was a managed aviation crash.

“Several important conclusions can already be drawn. The only interested party is the Russian dictator,” a UNIAN report quoted him as saying.

“Putin never forgives his own fear,” he stated, as per the report.

“Furthermore, he does not forgive a massive public humiliation, compounded by the personal betrayal of yesterday’s favorite. And Putin, I remind you, was extremely frightened in June 2023 when Prigozhin organized a march on Moscow. Frightened in all senses - he realized that there was no power vertical and no control,” Zelenskyy’s aide added.

According to him, the unsuccessful revolt destroyed all myths that the Russian President had spent years building about his strength, about his omnipresent security forces, loyalty of the elite, and unconditional electoral popularity.

“The most important thing is that he showed everyone, including Western elites, that Putin knows how to hysterically fear, knows how to panic, knows how to quickly run away and knows how to hide,” he remarked, as per quoted by the agency.

He further opined that Prigozhin did not have a “single chance of survival”.

"By stopping his own rebellious march 200 kilometers before Moscow, he signed his own absolute death sentence. The question was only when, how, and in what manner it would be executed. In classic Russian tradition, Putin did it as demonstratively, illustratively, and timely as possible," the advisor to the head of the Office of the President said.

The Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport,Rosaviatsiya, said that among the passengers of the business jet that crashed in the Tver region were Yevhen Prigozhin and Dmytro Utkin, regarded the founder of  “Wagner” group, Interfax reported.

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