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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]
In June 2017, the United States imposed sanctions against Utkin as the head of Wagner Group. [39] In November 2017, RBK reported the appointment of Utkin as the CEO of Concord Management and Consulting, the managing company of the restaurant holding owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, [40] who is believed to have been the financier of Wagner Group. [41]
Among the ten victims were Yevgeny Prigozhin, Dmitry Utkin, and Valery Chekalov, the key figures of the Wagner Group. After the crash, Wagner's leadership structure became unclear. [2] On 1 October 2023, the contents of Yevgeny Prigozhin's will became known, in which he bequeathed all property to his son, Pavel Prigozhin. Pavel Prigozhin became ...
2014 - Wager group is founded by Prigozhin. Prigozhin, a wealthy businessman known as Putin’s chef because he provided catering services to the Kremlin, said he founded the group back in 2014 ...
Wagner leader and his fighters started a march on Moscow and claimed to come within 200km of the Kremlin before aborting the military coup. Zelensky makes trip to frontline and hands out awards ...
Yevgeny Prigozhin was spotted in St. Petersburg on Thursday at a summit between African and Russian leaders, the first time the head of the Wagner Group mercenaries has been seen in Russia since ...
In October 2023, pro-Wagner groups reported that Pavel Prigozhin, son of former leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, had been appointed as the new leader of the Wagner Group. [ 5 ] On 6 November 2023, the Kyiv Post released drone footage of what it claimed was Ukrainian special forces attacking Wagner PMC soldiers in Sudan with an explosive projectile.
The Wagner founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is presumed dead in a plane crash – a turn of events that appears to leave his Wagner Group fighters rudderless and facing a highly uncertain future ...