“President Vladimir Putin of Russia claimed on Thursday that the warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin and his associates may have brought down their private jet with hand grenades while possibly under the influence of cocaine — a new narrative from the Kremlin about the August plane crash widely seen as an assassination carried out by the Russian government,” the New York Times reports.
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