Mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin halted his advance on Moscow on Saturday after negotiations with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The head of the Wagner troops is now in Belarus, where he will go into exile according to agreements. In addition, the mercenaries have to hand over their equipment to the Russian army. But who exactly is Prigozhin?
Yevgeny Prigozhin is now probably one of the most famous faces when it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During Soviet times, he spent nine years in prison for theft, fraud and other crimes. Today he is a wealthy Russian businessman who has been said to have close ties to Putin since the 1990s. He is also often referred to as “Putin’s cook” because he used to run a restaurant in St. Petersburg where Putin often ate.
Source: Krone
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