It’s too early to comment on Prigozhin plane crash: Kremlin

The Kremlin said that it is too early to comment on the death of Wagner Private Military Company chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash as investigations are still going on, CNN reported on Friday.
“An investigation is ongoing, so it would be premature to give any comments now,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
He said that the investigation into the incident is really complex and added, “This is a complex investigation, a complex incident.”
On August 23, Prigozhin died in an airplane crash in Russia’s western Tver region exactly two months after leading an abortive mutiny on Moscow that posed the greatest threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority in his 23 years in power.
Rosaviatsia, Russia’s civil aviation agency, said at the time that it had launched an investigation into “the circumstances and causes of the accident.” Russia’s Investigative Committee also launched a criminal probe.
CNN reviewed flight data and videos and interviewed aviation and explosive experts, to piece together what happened in the minutes leading up to the crash. The analysis suggests that the private aircraft experienced at least one “catastrophic inflight incident” before it dropped out of the sky. But available video did not show that catastrophic event.
Earlier, the Kremlin has said a “premeditated villainous act” is one line of inquiry that investigators are currently pursuing, Russia’s state media TASS reported.
Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s remarks came in response to a media query on Wednesday about whether the investigation could feature an international dimension.