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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin [a] [b] (1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. [5] He led the Wagner Group , a private military company , and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin until launching a rebellion in June 2023. [ 6 ]
Pavel Prigozhin was born on 18 June 1998 (according to other sources - in 1996) in the family of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. He is the middle child in the family, growing up with his sisters Polina and Veronika.
He rarely made public appearances, but was allegedly the commander of the private military company, while Yevgeny Prigozhin was its owner and public face. [7] Utkin was awarded four Orders of Courage of Russia. Utkin was killed on 23 August 2023 when a plane carrying him, Prigozhin and eight others crashed in Tver Oblast, leaving no survivors ...
The founder of the Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died when his plane fell out of the sky, was once close enough to Vladimir Putin to be called his “personal chef ...
The jet, which was en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg and carrying three pilots and seven passengers, belonged to Yevgeny Prigozhin. Head of Wagner Group was aboard jet that crashed, Russian ...
Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin exactly two months ago, was on board a plane that crashed on Wednesday, according to Russian officials – raising ...
The passengers were Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group; [42] Dmitry Utkin, the Wagner Group's co-founder and leader of military operations; [42] Valery Chekalov, head of security and foreign logistics for the Wagner Group; [42] as well as two Wagner veterans and two of Prigozhin's bodyguards.
The 25-year-old son of Yevgeny Prigozhin is set to take over from his father and become the next boss of the Wagner group.. Pavel Prigozhin appears to be inheriting the vast majority of his father ...