It has no stripes, but no limits either. You can insult a general or bless an execution. Their dead men do not exist and their victories shine on social networks before the Ministry of Defense draws them on the maps. Evgeni Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary company, has been the mister wolf Vladimir Putin in the Ukrainian war. Just like John Travolta’s and Samuel L. Jackson’s characters in Pulp Fiction, the Kremlin is now up to its neck in blood and trouble. Evgeni Viktorovich Prigozhin (Leningrad, today Saint Petersburg, 1961) was a convict during the USSR. Today he is the former hot dog seller who has reached the highest in Russia. After his advance in Soledar, he seems to have the magic recipe to win. But after years of success in the dark, his exposure to the light of putinism you can burn it.
Wagner currently has around 50,000 men deployed in the Ukraine. Of them, 10,000 are contractors and 40,000 are convicts recruited from Russian prisons., according to US calculations. His role right now is key in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, an inalienable objective of the Kremlin.
When Putin praised his army for its advances in Soledar, he knew full well that it was the lobos of Wagner those who besieged the Ukrainian soldiers among those demolished houses and abandoned salt mines.
Moscow last year proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk “republics” of Russia, but has not succeeded in expelling the Ukrainians, especially in the latter. Wagner’s boss declared earlier this year in a rare interview that It could take Russia two years to subdue the entirety of these two eastern Ukrainian regions.. And he is the spearhead.
After hanging the medals, Prigozhin has disappeared from the official Russian media. But he has continued to stick out his chest on social networks. “Today, Wagner’s assault units took the city of Krasna Hora,” was one of his statements through this channel from the Wagner leader, posting a photo of his warriors a few kilometers from the long-awaited Bakhmut.