Kazakhstan Responds to WSJ Report on Prigozhin's Death

Kazakhstan's presidential adviser and press secretary Berik Uali has stated that Nikolai Patrushev, the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, did not appeal to the Kazakh authorities during the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner military company. This information is reported by TASS.

According to Uali, the claim published in the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), that Patrushev called Astana during Prigozhin's rebellion, is not true. The publication also alleges that the Security Council secretary organized the plane crash that involved Prigozhin.

On December 22, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president, referred to the WSJ's publication on the cause of Prigozhin's plane crash as a 'bait.'

Yevgeny Prigozhin died on August 23, 2023, when the business jet he was on crashed near Tver. The WSJ reported that Nikolai Patrushev organized the crash. According to the publication, the secretary began warning Russian President Vladimir Putin about Prigozhin's growing influence in the summer of 2022.

Previously, with reference to The Wall Street Journal, it was reported that the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was murdered, and the murder was organized by Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service of Russia and the Security Council of Russia.