As columns of mercenaries appeared to be moving with lightning speed towards Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to strike back hard against Yevgeni Prigozhin, the Wagner Group leader who has launched an extraordinary assault on his own government.
earlier this month. The comments represented the eruption of a rare public feud between the Kremlin and Prigozhin, who had been dubbed"Putin's chef" for his close relationship with the Russian leader.
A native of St. Petersburg, like Putin, Prigozhin served time in prison for assault in the 1980s. He later opened a hot dog stand and eventually a catering business before becoming, improbably, one of Putin’s closest advisers., the Wagner Group had previously supported despotic regimes in Syria and several African nations, operating in a kind of extralegal territory.
Even if he seemed to frequently overstate Wagner gains, and to show little regard for the thousands of men he sent to their deaths, Prigozhin emerged throughout the first months of 2023 as a charismatic and energetic commander in a landscape filled to a large extent with bland incompetents afraid to speak honestly to the Kremlin.Moscow seemed taken aback by his offensive.
Putin praised the thousands of Wagner mercenaries who died on the battlefields of Ukraine as “heroes” who had sacrificed their lives for “the unity of the Russian world.” But he described the forces now following Prigozhin’s lead towards Moscow as traitors “who are attempting to stage a revolt and are pushing the country towards anarchy and fratricide – and ultimately, towards defeat and surrender.
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