Prisoner to would-be president: The rise of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin

The Wagner Group of mercenaries has been preventing in Ukraine since Russia’s first invasion in 2014, however little or no was identified in regards to the group, or its chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, till the tip of 2022 when he started talking publicly.

As the UK and EU put together to declare the Wagner Group a terror organisation, is the mercenary group, and Prigozhin himself, turning into a legal responsibility for the Kremlin?

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson asks about what we all know of the shadowy head of Wagner, with Samantha de Bendern, affiliate fellow on the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and takes a better take a look at the function Wagner Group is enjoying within the invasion of Ukraine with Joana de Deus Pereira, senior analysis fellow on the Royal United Services Institute Europe.

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