Russian president Vladimir Putin has broken his silence on the crash which occurred exactly two months after Prigozhin led a mutiny against Russia’s army leadership. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool/AFP Russian president Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences on Thursday to the family of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his presumed death in a plane crash and praised him as a “talented businessman”. Mr Prigozhin and top officers of his private military are presumed dead in the crash, which has been widely seen as an assassination, two months after they staged the mutiny that dented Mr Putin’s authority. Crash investigators have still...