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Bradley Jolly

Wagner boss Prighozin had been 'treated for cancer and had nothing to lose' before mutiny

Yevgeny Prigozhin's decision to launch a mutiny against Moscow may have been motivated by an ongoing journey with cancer, a new report has claimed tonight.

The oligarch's former employees have said the 62-year-old man has undergone treatment for stomach cancer. They told this, though, to a publication now banned in Russia and claimed Prigozhin had little to lose with Wagner Group's march towards Moscow.

It ended in a dramatic U-turn as, in late June, Prigozhin accepted Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's proposal to stop the advance.

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