For many years Pragosian disavowed any connection to Wagner and he sued journalists who said that he did it's only since I think last September or October that he emerged as into the opens the person running Wagner. There is a suspicion that president of Volodymyr Zelensky Kiev mayor Vittelik Litschko and a whole series of female and other politicians are their assassination targets. The allegation is that Pridogen's enemies within the FSB tipped off the Ukrainians something which sounds incredible on the face of it but absolutely if you know Russian power politics and Kremlin fighting to sound quite credibleI'm still alive and that's why it's me talking to you it's not
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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