Putin humiliates Wagner Group leader Prigozhin as he raids his mansion
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Putin raids Wagner Group leader Prigozhin’s mansion; humiliates exiled warlord after failed Wagner uprising
Putin raids Wagner Group leader Prigozhin’s mansion; humiliates exiled warlord after failed Wagner uprising.
Vladimir Putin has humiliated Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his failed uprising in Russia by sending security services to raid his St Petersburg palace.
Dailymail reports that the Pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia published photos and video of armed officers searching Prigozhin’s mansion while he was exiled in Belarus on June 24.
The investigators discovered huge caches of assault weapons and ammunition, stashes of gold bars, a stuffed alligator, and a framed photo which is purported to be of the severed heads of the exiled private military leader’s enemies.
Images of the raid also include a large closet containing many different wigs of varying styles and colours, from grey to mousy brown.
A slew of photos purporting to show Prigozhin wearing the wigs as part of various disguises were leaked to state-backed Russian Telegram channels.
The quality of some disguises is laughable, sparking speculation they may have been doctored in an attempt to further discredit the Wagner chief.
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But Prigozhin’s supporters declared the leaking of the images may flout Russia’s strict national security laws, suggesting the oligarch was acting as a state agent, given Wagner’s ties to Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU.
It comes after the warlord launched what appeared to be an armed insurrection against Putin less than two weeks ago – which was soon halted after Minsk helped broker a deal to end the conflict.
Prigozhin’s Wagner force crossed from Ukraine into Russia on June 24 and took control of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don as a unit of his fighters sped towards Moscow in an attempt to remove key Russian military officials.
But the Wagner convoy stopped within 200km (124 miles) of Moscow, and to the surprise of many, Prigozhin said he had called off his operation after agreeing to lead his forces into Belarus after a deal was struck with the country’s leader Alexander Lukashenko, and in order to not spill Russian blood.
Under the deal, all criminal charges against Prigozhin and the Wagner fighters who participated in the mutiny were to be dropped.
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