Russian authorities have accused Yevgeniy Prigozhin — the head of the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, a network of private security contractors key to Russia’s war in Ukraine — of “incitement to armed rebellion.”
Yevgeniy Prigozhin — the head of the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, a network of private security contractors key to Russia’s war in Ukraine — of “incitement to armed rebellion.” He claimed early Saturday to have taken control of a pivotal Russian military command center in Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia.The group’s seizure of Russian military sites sowed chaos, appearing to verge on open war with military authorities.
The United States estimated earlier this year that about 50,000 of Prigozhin’s Wagner fighters had deployed to Ukraine, the majority of them
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