A member of private mercenary group Wagner pays tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, at a makeshift memorial in Rostov-on-Don. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images Russian president Vladimir Putin spoke for the first time of the apparent death of the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday night as a preliminary US intelligence assessment concluded that Mr Prigozhin’s private jet was probably downed by a bomb on the aircraft. Mr Putin described Mr Prigozhin as “a talented businessman” who had “made some serious mistakes in life”, but also “achieved necessary results”. Although there has been no official confirmation of Mr...