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Yevgeny Prigozhin: The hotdog salesman who had Putin to thank for his rise – and his fall

Wagner chief nicknamed the Russian president ‘papa’, but fell from grace after leading ill-fated mutiny in midst of Ukraine war

Mugger, convict, hotdog salesman, fine-dining boss, warlord and the mercenary chief who dared to challenge Vladimir Putin.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the 62-year-old owner of the Wagner Group and the cruellest commander of Putin’s illegal war on Ukraine, was all these things before his reported death.

Now he is the centre of a murky story of suspected revenge that brings far fewer surprises than his incredible rise to power from prison to Putin’s orbit.

Prigozhin fell from grace after leading a June mutiny against the Russian president in the midst of his illegal war in Ukraine.

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