For months, Wagner's founder has been locked in a power struggle with the military top brass, blaming them for his troops' deaths in eastern Ukraine.
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin vowed to punish “traitors” from the Wagner mercenary group, after its leader swore he would topple Moscow’s military leadership.
He spent nine years in prison in the final period of the USSR after being convicted of fraud and theft, and in the chaos of the 1990s, he began a moderately successful fast-food company. “Vladimir Putin saw how I built a business out of a kiosk, he saw that I don’t mind serving to the esteemed guests because they were my guests,” Prigozhin recalled in an interview published in 2011.
But last September, he conceded that he had founded the fighting force and opened headquarters in Saint Petersburg. In July 2018, three journalists researching Wagner’s operations in the Central African Republic for an investigative media outlet were killed in an ambush. “No one gives themselves up,” he said, adding that recruits should have grenades on them in case of capture.
He has repeatedly accused them of failing to equip his private army adequately, of holding up progress with bureaucracy, while claiming victories won by Wagner as their own. Yesterday, Prigozhin’s anger appeared to boil over, as he accused Moscow’s military leadership of ordering strikes on Wagner’s camps and killing a large number of forces.He later claimed his forces had downed a Russian military helicopter.
At a major intersection in the city centre, an armoured car with a machine gun and around a dozen men in military fatigues with silver armbands could be seen.
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