Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is accused of atrocities across multiple continents and may now be dead. His children’s book follows a man’s journey back to his family.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is now maybe dead after an explosion felled his private plane this week, might have once believed there was nothing he couldn’t do.
He ran a chain of restaurants and a catering company, which caught the eye of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He engineered a plan to interfere in US elections. He ran a Russian mercenary group accused of atrocities in Ukraine and across multiple continents. And he staged a mutiny against Russian military leaders, marching his squadron halfway to Moscow before decamping to Belarus, considerably weakening Putin’s international standing (though Putin might have just gotten his revenge).
He was also once, The Moscow Times reports, a children’s book author.
Prigozhin is perhaps most famous for leading the charge on the front lines of Ukraine. As the head of the Wagner Group, he once filled its ranks with Russian prisoners and threw them at the front in eastern Ukraine.
