Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made a claim suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been involved in the demise of Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Johnson has asserted that any attempts at peace negotiations with Putin concerning Ukraine would be futile.

In an op-ed published in the Daily Mail on Saturday, Johnson engaged in speculation about the final moments of Prigozhin, shortly after a plane presumed to be carrying the Wagner leader crashed in a field northwest of Moscow on its way to St. Petersburg.

Although the cause of the plane crash remains uncertain, US and Western intelligence officials, as informed to CNN, lean towards the belief that the crash was intentional, CNN reported.

“He knew whose hidden hand was sending him 28,000 ft down, to be immolated with the rest of his Wagner group companions in a fireball in the countryside of the Tver region north of Moscow – and then on downwards, of course, for the shade of Prigozhin: down, down to Hades and the Tartarean pit below,” Johnson wrote.

“As the detonation sucked the air out of the aircraft’s cabin, I would wager that the last thought in the doomed dome of Prigozhin’s skull was ‘Putin!’, preceded by one of the many profanities in which the former jailbird and hotdog salesman was so fluent,” Johnson wrote.

Written by staff