Prigozhin in a sentence

Even if the bombing of the mercenary base Prigozhin raged about was faked, as the Kremlin insisted, Prigozhin may still have been in fear for this life, Richardson says.

Russia’s aviation authority has said Prigozhin was on board the private jet when it went down on Wednesday with no survivors – two months after Prigozhin led a mutiny against army chiefs.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has become more complex in the wake of the past weekend, which found Yevgeny Prigozhin marching his troops toward Moscow, and President Vladimir Putin finding a safe haven for Prigozhin in Belarus.

About 8,000 Wagner troops are said to be stationed at camps in Belarus, having followed Prigozhin there after his failed uprising in June.

According to an insider, though, the reason for Prigozhin's decision to shift the blame this time around was that he was not close to reaching the targets he has told Putin he would meet.

A deal brokered by Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, who is a close ally of Putin and a man Prigozhin has known for 20 years, sees the Wagner chief given safe passage to Belarus and all charges against him dropped.

A foreign adversary faced a serious domestic threat, so it stood to reason that the United States would say very little, since it would only help Putin if Prigozhin and his forces were seen as acting on behalf of the West.

After the Kherson pullout, Prigozhin, a fierce critic of Gerasimov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, praised Surovikin as "a man who is not afraid of responsibility".

Along with their continuing activities in Africa, several thousand Wagner mercenaries have moved to Belarus after an armed rebellion led by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Alternatively, Prigozhin’s attempts to establish more influence abroad may have a red line which the two negotiated with Belarus after the attempted coup.

Although US officials have said that the group, which has a significant presence in Africa, did not have a role in instigating the coup, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has already sought to exploit the situation.

Amid the fighting in Bakhmut, Prigozhin has continued to demand that the Kremlin supply him with ammunition.

And after 6 p.m. that evening, Mr. Prigozhin’s plane — an executive jet he frequently used, and said to be the same one on which he flew to Belarus after the aborted mutiny — dropped out of the sky.

And after he boasted to have taken control of the city from Ukraine to end the war's bloodiest battle, the question is what is next for Prigozhin?

And in a further sign of the rift, on Monday Mr Prigozhin said his representative was unable to access the headquarters of Russia’s military command.

And, the ISW said, the Kremlin's apparent surprise at Prigozhin's rebellion doesn't reflect at all well on the FSB.

A newly-released video of Yevgeny Prigozhin purports to show the Wagner group boss in Africa addressing rumours about his well-being and threats to his life, just days before his death, according to a media report.

A portrait of the owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin lays at an informal memorial next to the former PMC Wagner Centre in St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday, August 24, 2023.

As fighters were advancing, Prigozhin was reportedly at the Russian army's Southern Military District headquarters meeting high-ranking military officials.

As for Prigozhin and Wagner, their model will take a new form.