In 2023, the disgraced chief of the mercenary Wagner group Yevgeny Prigozhin, took off in his private jet from Moscow airport. The flight did not last long. Nine people died with him when the plane – it seems – blew up in midair. A few weeks earlier, Prigozhin had led his mercenaries fighting in Ukraine on a march towards Moscow. Vladimir Putin did not pretend to mourn his death. So what’s been the fate of the Wagner Group?
- GUEST: Candace Rondeaux, Senior Director for the Future Frontlines program at New America, and author, “Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos”.
- PRODUCER: Ali Benton
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