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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alexander Butler

How Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death was ‘orchestrated by Putin’s oldest ally’

GREY ZONE, Telegram

Ex-Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a bomb plot orchestrated by Vladimir Putin’s oldest ally, a Russian intelligence officer has claimed.

Mr Prigozhin, who was killed when his plane crashed over Russia on 23 August this year, launched a mutiny against the Russian ministry of defence in June following a long-running feud with officials over the direction of the war in Ukraine.

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