It came as predicted by those familiar with Russia: exactly two months after the mutiny of the Wagner mercenaries, the group’s financier appears to have died. Not far from Moscow, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet crashed. There would have been important commanders on board, such as the neo-Nazi Dmitri Utkin, who called himself ‘Wagner’ and gave the group his name. In Russia, known for its mysterious deaths, the events are unlikely to surprise anyone. What is even more surprising is that Putin has allowed Prigozhin and his men to do this for so long.
By the time the uprising broke out, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s fate was probably already sealed: labeled a “traitor” by Putin, many pundits said he didn’t have a long life ahead of him. Prior to that, Prigozhin, whose mercenaries paid a huge toll in blood in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, had lashed out vicious insults at army command and defense minister Shoigu. Prigozhin also grumbled against the Moscow ‘elites’, who, in addition to Wagner’s private army, also provided an expensive propaganda machine. So he had enough enemies. But Prigozhin trusted for years that the Kremlin needed him.
Source: Krone
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