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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 ]
The rivalry between Yevgeny Prigozhin, the then-head of the Wagner Group, and Sergei Shoigu, a member of the leadership of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence (MoD), began in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine [2] which ultimately led to the Wagner Group rebellion on the 23rd and 24th of June 2023.
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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
Yevgeny Prigozhin in Ulyanovsk on 13 June 2023. In the early 1990s, Prigozhin, having served a decade in prison before embarking on an entrepreneurial career, emerged as a prominent figure in Saint Petersburg's business life, gaining recognition for a string of highly regarded restaurants.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, the millionaire owner of the Wagner Group private military company, is pictured with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2010. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)