Putin told an annual meeting of the Valdai Club in Sochi on Thursday that Prigozhin and his men likely got drunk or possibly high, and were playing with grenades. Putin said, "In the bodies of those who died in the air crash fragments of hand grenades were found."
The Russian leader expressed regret that toxicology tests weren't conducted on the recovered bodies at the crash site, as they "found not only $10 million in cash, but 5 kilograms of cocaine" in a subsequent raid on Wagner PMC's main offices in St. Petersburg.