Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russian oligarch and mercenary leader (1961–2023)
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Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was a Russian mercenary leader and oligarch. 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. Prigozhin was sometimes referred to as "Putin's chef" because he owned restaurants and catering businesses that provided services to the Kremlin. Once a convict in the Soviet Union, Prigozhin controlled a network of influential companies whose operations, according to a 2020 investigation, were "tightly integrated with Russia's Defence Ministry and its intelligence arm, the GRU".
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One year on from Wagner rebellion and Putin's position is as strong as everToday marks the first anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin's march on Moscow with his Wagner mercenaries.Sky News - Published | |
Hand grenade fragments found in bodies of victims after Prigozhin plane crash - PutinHand grenade fragments were found in the bodies of victims of a plane crash that killed former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.Sky News - Published | |
'Basically I'm fine': New video of Prigozhin emerges from days before his reported deathA new video has emerged of former Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a vehicle addressing the camera, seemingly days before his reported death.Sky News - Published | |
Prigozhin buried without fanfare after spectacular fall from graceFrom alpha to omega, Yevgeny Prigozhin has ended life as it began.Sky News - Published | |
Wagner boss Prigozhin buried privately in St Petersburg cemetery, his press team saysWagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been buried privately in a St Petersburg cemetery, according to his press team.Sky News - Published | |
Putin was careful not to make Prigozhin a martyr - but his legacy will live on | Sean BellMore than two months have passed since Yevgeny Prigozhin's ill-fated rebellion against Moscow.Sky News - Published | |
Prigozhin's 'death' seems to reveal a Russian principle - cross the Kremlin and it won't end wellOutside a glass-fronted business centre a little way out of central St Petersburg, the mourners kept coming.Sky News - Published | |
Putin sends condolences to family after Prigozhin 'death' in plane crashVladimir Putin says he has sent his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin after the Wagner Group leader was presumed killed in a plane crash.Sky News - Published | |
What Prigozhin's 'death' means for the 'disintegrating' Wagner GroupThe Wagner Group will continue to disintegrate in the wake of a plane crash that left its leader presumed dead, experts have warned.Sky News - Published | |
Prigozhin 'dead' - what next for Putin and Ukraine?Russians have been paying tribute to Yevgeny Prigozhin after it was reported the Wagner Group leader was among 10 people who died when a private jet crashed north of Moscow on Wednesday.Sky News - Published | |
The list of Vladimir Putin critics who met untimely deathsIt's thought the Wagner Group's brief uprising against the Russian defence ministry may have sealed Yevgeny Prigozhin's fate.Sky News - Published | |
Four key things the Prigozhin plane footage tells us - from a former UK military pilotWas the private jet believed to be carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin brought down, and what exactly happened to it?Sky News - Published | |
Military analyst Sean Bell on what the footage tells usRussian aviation authorities say Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was among ten people killed in a plane crash near Moscow on Wednesday.Sky News - Published | Wagner boss on 'plane which crashed killing all 10 on board' - but death yet to be confirmedWagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a plane that crashed north of Moscow killing all 10 passengers on board, Russia's Civil Aviation Authority has said.Sky News - Published |
Yevgeny Prigozhin trod a dangerous tightrope - his apparent death proves no one is indispensablePerhaps it was always only ever going to be a matter of time.Sky News - Published | Putin raised Prigozhin up, used him and it seems he has now destroyed his own creatureNo one should be sentimental about Yevgeny Prigozhin.Sky News - Published |
Wagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin 'was on plane' that crashed near MoscowWagner Group commander Dmitry Utkin was on the plane, along with Yevgeny Prigozhin, that crashed north of Moscow, according to the Russian civil aviation authority.Sky News - Published | Was Prigozhin on plane that crashed near Moscow? What we know so farA private jet with 10 people on board has crashed in Russia - with the man who led a short-lived mutiny against the country's top brass on the passenger list.Sky News - Published |
Footage shows Russian jet plummeting to the groundVideo has emerged showing the moment a plane - said to have mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin on board - was seen plummeting towards the ground.Sky News - Published | Ten killed in private jet crash north of Moscow - Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on passenger list'Ten people have been killed in a private jet crash north of Moscow - with the Russian Civil Aviation Authority saying Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list.Sky News - Published |
Wagner leader fighting to 'free Africa' in new video addressWagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has shared his first video address since his aborted June mutiny.Sky News - Published | Is Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin at event with Vladimir Putin in Russia?Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin may be at a summit in St Petersburg - where Vladimir Putin is also in attendance, images posted online and in Russian media suggest.Sky News - Published |
Putin is balanced on a delicate tightrope when it comes to PrigozhinA little less than two weeks ago, we were taken to the camp at Tsel where Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to have popped up.Sky News - Published | Wagner mercenary boss Prigozhin 'seen welcoming his fighters to Belarus'Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has purportedly appeared in a video welcoming his fighters to Belarus and saying their training will make the Belarusian army the second best in the world.Sky News - Published |
Putin met with Prigozhin five days after mutiny, Kremlin claimsVladimir Putin met with Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin just days after his mutiny, the Kremlin has claimed.Sky News - Published | Inside his grand palace, Lukashenko speaks out on Putin, Prigozhin and the Wagner mutinyAlexander Lukashenko repeated his claim today that there were no heroes in the remarkably speedy resolution of Prigozhin's mutiny, thanks at least in part to his own mediation efforts.Sky News - Published |
Prigozhin and the Kremlin are seemingly now on good terms - but the whole episode may not be overAlexander Lukashenko repeated his claim today that there were no heroes in the remarkably speedy resolution of Prigozhin's mutiny, thanks at least in part to his own mediation efforts.Sky News - Published | Wagner boss is in Russia and Putin won't 'wipe' him out - Belarus leaderBelarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia - and Vladimir Putin will not "wipe" him out.Sky News - Published |
Wigs, guns and gold bars found in Russian raid of palace abandoned by Wagner bossThe St Petersburg palace of Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been raided by Russian security services.Sky News - Published | 'Putin's mistakes' giving US 'once-in-a-generation' chance to recruit Russian spies, says CIA directorDissatisfaction over Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, underlined by Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's armed mutiny, has created a "once-in-a-generation" opportunity for the US to recruit spies, the..Sky News - Published |
Wagner boss will keep a low profile in Belarus - but he remains a dangerous animalFollowing Yevgeny Prigozhin's abortive "march for justice" towards the Russian capital last weekend, President Lukashenko of Belarus intervened and apparently offered the Wagner boss safe sanctuary in..Sky News - Published | |
