Some commentators said Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin could one day be made defence minister. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Mr Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s Chef” by Western media because he once ran a floating restaurant in St Petersburg where Mr Putin ate, has plenty to gain or lose.
“In essence, he is a private businessman who is highly dependent on how his relations with the authorities are structured. This is a very vulnerable position,” said Ms Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of the R.Politik analysis firm.Russia has allowed Mr Prigozhin to recruit tens of thousands of convicts from its prisons for Wagner, which US officials say is a 50,000-strong force, and let him equip them with tanks, aircraft and missile defence systems.
Before Russia’s invasion, something Moscow calls “a special military operation”, Mr Prigozhin had denied his Wagner connection. In September, he said he had founded the mercenary group in 2014.
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