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Will Stewart & Rachel Hagan

Head of Wagner private army demands Putin sends defence minister's son-in-law to fight

A bitter rift inside Vladimir Putin’s war machine is deepening with the boss of the Wagner private army demanding the son-in-law of Russia’s defence minister be conscripted.

Popular fitness influencer Alexey Stolyarov is going out with the daughter of loyalist defence minister Sergei Shoigu, Ksenia Shoigu.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, along with Shoigu, is a close Putin crony, but the two men loathe each other.

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