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Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed 'Putin's chef' after providing catering services to the Kremlin, heads up the despot's private army which carries out his dirty work at arm's length from the state.
Ambitious henchman Yevgeny Prigozhin - who runs the 50,000-strong Wagner private army - is increasingly seen as posing a rising threat to the Kremlin leader with his daily grandstanding.
As we near the one-year anniversary of Russia’s all-out assault on Ukraine, the political fractures inside Russia are on public display
And called to punish the "glamorisation of the Russian army".
The mercenaries have been heavily involved in the fighting in Ukraine, and have claimed credit for the fall of Soledar, a strategic town in Donetsk.