Profile of Prigozhin Who Was Allegedly Dead, ‘The Chef’ Disobeyed Putin

Profile of Prigozhin Who Was Allegedly Dead, ‘The Chef’ Disobeyed Putin. The boss of Wagner Group mercenaries Yevgeny Prigozhin drew attention after allegedly being killed when his Embraer Legacy private jet crashed in Tver on Wednesday (24/8). Prigozhin was reportedly a passenger on the jet. Embraer Legacy flies from Moscow to St Petersburg. However, half an hour after takeoff the plane was reported to have caught fire from the impact. Prigozhin’s name, which has earned the nickname ‘Putin’s chef’, has actually been sticking out since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In March 2022, the West judged that Russia was using mercenaries to help them on the battlefield.

Wagner’s troops even became the main spear of Russia.

But in January 2023, Prigozhin’s conflict with Russia began to emerge. At that time, Prigozhin claimed victory at Soledar and said that the Russian army had played little role. Before long, the Russian Ministry of Defense also claimed control of Soledar. Prigozhin’s conflict with the Kremlin escalates when he criticizes Russian strategy. Prigozhin has increasingly criticized the Kremlin and even President Vladimir Putin after withdrawing all Wagner troops from Ukraine. Wagner’s troop withdrawal took place last June after Wagner’s contract with Russia expired. In one of his interviews, Prigozhin said that the Russian army was not capable enough to fight against the Ukrainian troops.

For now, in my view, and according to military assessments

on the ground, it is not sufficiently capable against the enemy,” he said in mid-June, as quoted by Newsweek. In the last week of June, Prigozhin had claimed that Russian troops attacked Wagner’s camp, killing a number of personnel. However, the Russian Ministry of Defense denied this allegation. In response to the attack, he declared war and prepared to storm Moscow. Then on June 24, Prigozhin claimed control of the military base and airfield in Rostov-on-Don. Mercenary personnel, he said, were at the Rostov headquarters since 7:30 a.m. local time, CNN was quoted as saying .
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