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The president of Belarus said Friday that he warned the late mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin twice that his life was likely in danger during and following the aborted uprising by his Wagner Group against the Russian government earlier this summer.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner Group, died in a plane crash on Tuesday, leaving the private proxy group without a leader for now.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is reported to have died in a plane crash aged 62, was a former hot-dog seller and ex-convict who went on to become a billionaire restaurateur and “global Kremlin action man” running the so-called Wagner Group, a shadowy army of mercenaries, on behalf of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The former hot-dog seller and ex-convict came to prominence during the Donbas war in Ukraine from 2014 and was accused of atrocities
The head of the Russian paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been meeting with representatives from Mali, the Central African Republic and Niger. The United States, meanwhile, is attempting to block the Wagner Group from profiting from African mines