MOSCOW — Prigozhin plane surface-to-air missile accusations are ‘inaccurate,’ according to a Pentagon officer.
Ryder stated that the Pentagon has no evidence to suggest that a surface-to-air missile was responsible for the downing of the plane carrying Prigozhin. “We assess that information to be inaccurate,” Ryder said of the press allegations that the Embraer plane was hit by surface-to-air missiles.
He said that the Pentagon was quite sure Prigozhin was dead, but they hadn’t confirmed it. The Pentagon has no evidence that the jet carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was shot down by a surface-to-air missile, according to the spokeswoman Brig Gen Pat Ryder. “We assess that information to be inaccurate,” Ryder said of the press allegations that the Embraer plane was hit by surface-to-air missiles. In October, the United States will begin F-16 training for Ukrainian pilots. After September’s English language training for pilots, the 162nd wing of the Air National Guard will facilitate F-16 flight instruction in October at Morris air national guard base in Tucson, Arizona.
Sergei Lavrov informed António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, that Russia will return to the Black Sea grain deal only if the west fulfills its responsibilities to Moscow. Russian authorities have decided to keep Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in prison for an additional three months. Since the end of the Cold War, he was the first journalist to be arrested by Russian authorities on espionage charges. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine has denied any involvement on the part of Kyiv in the mysterious death of Prigozhin. Ukrainian city of Dnipro was hit by a missile early Thursday, injuring seven persons, according to Serhiy Lisak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk district.
On Thursday, French officials claimed they had “reasonable doubts” about the official explanation for the jet crash that they said took Prigozhin’s life. Norwegian network TV2 said on Thursday, citing unnamed sources, that Norway has decided to supply combat aircraft to Ukraine. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Thursday that Yvgeny Prigozhin’s alleged death fits into a pattern of “unclarified” mortality in Russia, adding that it was no coincidence that attention had moved to the Kremlin.
