‘Putin Approved’: Who Led Operation To Eliminate Prigozhin?

The Russian expert gave the names.

The Russian special services developed a special operation to assassinate Yevgeny Prigozhin. It was approved by Vladimir Putin, but he did not interfere in the process personally. Russian human rights activist Mark Feygin told Channel 24 about it.

Mr Feygin suggested that Andrey Averyanov, who arranged the poisoning of the Skripal family, could be the GRU agent. However, the FSB was also involved.

“General Dorofeev, head of the Moscow and Moscow Region FSB Department, was directly related to this. This would not have been possible Without the operational support of the FSB,” Mark Feygin said.

Alexei Dorofeev is the head of the Moscow and Moscow Region FSB Department. Person involved in one of the largest corruption scandals in the history of the FSB (June 2019). He was also involved in war crimes against Ukraine.

According to the human rights activist, the operation was led by the secretary of the National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev and the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov.

“Putin may have approved but did not interfere in this operation. He wasn't interested in that at all,” Feygin emphasized.

On August 23, the head of the Wagner Group died in a crash of his plane in Russia’s Tver region. Together with him was the founder of the company Dmitry Utkin and eight other people.

Several versions of air crash are being worked out. The most likely are two: an air defence missile strike or explosives inside the aircraft.