{"id":295228,"date":"2023-08-24T19:19:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=295228"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T19:20:17","slug":"putin-breaks-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/world\/putin-breaks-silence\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin breaks silence over Prigozhin plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest on Wednesday\u2019s plane crash in Russia, and the&nbsp;<strong>presumed death of Yevgeny Prigozhin<\/strong>, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Russian President <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Putin\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>has spoken for the first time about the incident<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In a televised address, he\u00a0<strong>sent his condolences<\/strong>\u00a0to the families of the dead, and also described Prigozhin as a talented businessman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He said Prigozhin was a person \u201cwith a complicated fate, and he made&nbsp;<strong>serious mistakes<\/strong>&nbsp;in life\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Putin warned that\u00a0<strong>an investigation into the crash<\/strong>\u00a0would take time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Earlier,\u00a0<strong>UK defence sources<\/strong>\u00a0have said the Russian intelligence service is most likely to have targeted the plane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said\u00a0<strong>Kyiv had nothing to do with the crash<\/strong>, but \u201ceveryone is aware who is involved\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/world\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/world\/\">More Stories Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the latest on Wednesday\u2019s plane crash in Russia, and the&nbsp;presumed death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary group. More Stories Here Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":295229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,25,2773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news","category-trending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Putin-jpg.webp?fit=624%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295230,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295228\/revisions\/295230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}