Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary group chief, used his close ties to President Putin to get rich and build a private army — then marched it on Moscow. He appears to have abandoned that rebellion in a deal that leaves more questions than answers.
While he touted his mercenary forces as game changers in Ukraine and gradually entered the public spotlight, Prigozhin increasingly clashed with the military establishment in Moscow.
The standoff then exploded and Prigozhin launched an armed rebellion on Friday after alleging that the Russian army fired at his mercenaries. This was a signal for the mercenary chief that “Putin had sided with his enemies,” he said, adding that Prigozhin “may have felt that his own safety was no longer guaranteed, in the long run, and that if he did not act he would end up sidelined or dead. He had nothing to lose.”
It’s possible that the estimated 25,000 Wagner fighters will be dispersed, “under suspicion,” across Russia’s regular army, said Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, the former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe.v.v.smolnikov / AP file
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