Britain’s national security agencies have been tracking the fate of Moscow’s powerful group of mercenaries known as the Wagner Group ever since its charismatic leader, Evgeny Prigozhin, was blown out of the sky in his private executive jet on 23 August 2023.
It is widely thought President Putin ordered Prigozhin to be eliminated after the Wagner chief had organised an attempted coup two months before to resist attempts to bring his forces under the control of Russia’s defence ministry.
