Wagner expend 20,000 lives for a little town called Bach Mutt of almost no strategic significance. It was always about a political future for Prigogen he had to get one victory and that's why when you come to what Wagner actually did in Ukraine. He may have done this for self-serving reasons at least as people close to him describe it.
Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from hot dog seller to top chef to Russia’s leading mercenary. Journalist Paul Wood and Harvard’s Timothy Colton explain why he turned on Vladimir Putin this weekend.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Hady Mawajdeh with help from Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd with help from Cristian Ayala, and hosted by Noel King.
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