BBCNEWS BBC News Special June 4, 2024 21:09:00
About a decade ago, he began to carry out operations around the world on behalf of the kremlin, even interfering in america's 2016 election. but prigozhin became best known as head of wagner, an often—brutal private mercenary group working to the kremlin�*s agenda. it has been operating across the middle east and africa, including syria, libya and mali, allowing putin to project power without being directly involved. but it is in the last year in ukraine that it has really come to the fore. as putin's plans for a quick victory faded, prigozhin�*s forces undertook some of the heaviest fig...