Twenty four hours after the plane crash thought to have killed Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin has commented publicly on it.
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The Russian President praised his former caterer as a "savvy businessman" who "made serious mistakes".
He also sent his condolences to the families of the ten people who died in the crash – which came exactly two months after Prigozhin’s brief mutiny.
And Putin warned that investigations into what caused it will take time.
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