Since the Wagner group’s abortive coup, many have felt its leader could be living on borrowed time
Ever since the abortive coup, speculation had been that Yevgeny Prigozhin could be living on borrowed time.
The cause of the crash on Wednesday, which killed all 10 people on board – Prigozhin listed among them, officials said – was not immediately clear, but the Wagner leader’s longstanding feud with the military and the armed uprising he led in June would give the Russian state ample motive for revenge.Putin does not suffer betrayal and is known to divide those who oppose him into two categories: enemies and traitors. Prigozhin’s uprising undoubtedly placed him in the second category.
Putin also remarkably admitted that he sought and failed during the meeting to have Prigozhin replaced as the leader of Wagner’s fighters inHaving initially left for Belarus where his Wagner troops set up camp and trained local security forces, Prigozhin was seen moving freely back and forth between Moscow and his home town of St. Petersburg, reportedly picking up stacks of cash and gold bars that he held at his opulent mansions.
But Prigozhin’s brazen conduct left many in the elite wondering whether Putin still held control over the country, according to western officials.
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