Biden suggests Putin may be behind Wagner boss Prigozhin’s plane crash death

That’s according to CNN, Ukrinform reports.

"You may recall, I was asked about this," Biden said, alluding to comments he made in July in which he said Prighozin should be worried about his safety following the failed insurrection stunt.

"I said I would be careful what I rode in. I don’t know for a fact what happened, but I’m not surprised," Biden said today.

Biden added that there is "not much that happens in Russia that Putin is not behind but I don’t know enough to know the answer."

At a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, in July, Biden joked that if he were Prighozin, "I’d be careful what I eat, keep my eye on my menu."

As Ukrinform reported earlier, an Embraer business jet crashed on Wednesday in Russia’s Tver region. According to multiple reports, Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board the aircraft, along with at least another prominent Wagner operative, Dmitry Utkin.

All passengers and crew are believed to have died in the incident, the cause of which remains unclear.

As reported, on June 23, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, announced a démarche against the Russian military leadership, in particular against Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

On June 24, the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko held talks with Prigozhin, allegedly at Putin’s request. Following the talks, the private army's leader announced he had ordered his forces to stop the march and return to their field camps.

Putin, in turn, said that the Wagner fighters could sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense or move to Belarus. Russian law enforcers dropped criminal charges initially pressed against Yevgeny Prigozhin over the mutiny attempt.