An emergency late-night broadcast on state-controlled television called out the man said to be responsible for the brewing mutiny: Yevgeny Prigozhin, the same mercenary boss Putin had tasked with bringing him a win in Ukraine just months earlier.
fighters to detain their boss and hand him over to authorities. Just a few hours earlier, Prigozhin had called on all “patriots” to join him and “25,000” of his men in ousting “evil” from the Russian Defense Ministry.
In another, he declared that he was on his way to Moscow, bellowing: “We’re all ready to die, all 25,000! And then there will be another 25,000!” Even now, after stepping out from the shadows and demanding credit for doing the Kremlin’s dirty work, Prigozhin controls a vast network of trolls and media publications, many of which he has clearly used to target foes in the Russian Defense Ministry and increasingly portray himself as an anti-elitist crusader determined to fight for the rights of the little guy. .Yevgeny Prigozhin shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his school lunch factory outside Saint Petersburg on Sept. 20, 2010.
Nearly a year later, it’s abundantly clear that the man once dubbed “Putin’s Chef” may have flown too close to the sun. The general consensus among experts is that the Kremlin allowed Prigozhin to do as he pleased as long as he was useful to the president. Less plausible, perhaps, is the possibility Prigozhin was used to keep in line the hardline, nationalist groups who have long pushed for more brutal tactics in the war.
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