He has risen from prisoner to hotdog seller to 'Putin's chef' to mercenary. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The FSB security service’s probe into calls to stage an “armed mutiny” came after Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62,Mr Prigozhin, 62, urged Russians to join his forces and punish Moscow’s military leadership in the most audacious challenge to President Vladimir Putin since the start of the offensive in Ukraine last year.
From there, he fell into the restaurant business and opened a luxury location in St Petersburg whose customers included Mr Putin, then making the transition from working in the KGB to local politics. “They conducted missile strikes at our rear camps. A huge number of our fighters, our comrades died,” he said in a series of furious audio messages released by his spokesmen.
He has also accused the Russian military of attempting to “steal” victories in Ukraine from his forces, and slammed Moscow’s “monstrous bureaucracy” for slowing military gains.Russia accuses mercenary boss of mutiny after he says Moscow killed 2,000 of his menMr Prigozhin has repeatedly blamed Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff, for his fighters’ deaths on the battlefield.
Wagner’s presence has been reported in conflict zones, including Syria, Libya, Mali, and the Central African Republic, where it has been accused of abuses and capturing state power.
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