Prisoner to would-be president: The rise of Wagner's Yevgeny Prigozhin
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
As the UK and EU prepare to declare the Wagner Group a terror organisation, is the mercenary group, and Prigozhin himself, becoming a liability for the Kremlin?
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson asks about what we know of the shadowy head of Wagner, with Samantha de Bendern, associate fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and takes a closer look at the role Wagner Group is playing in the invasion of Ukraine with Joana de Deus Pereira, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute Europe.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. By now, you'll probably have heard of the Wagner Group, that shadowy |
| 1:04.7 | group of mercenaries fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine. But like me, you probably don't know much about their leader |
| 1:11.8 | Yvgeny Progogian, although you may well have seen footage of him recruiting soldiers from inmates |
| 1:17.6 | in a Russian prison. One of his latest videos was published on Telegram, the Russian-founded social medium, |
| 1:29.3 | which has proved a hotbed for cranks and conspiracy theorists. |
| 1:33.3 | It's filmed in Bakhmut, a city in the east of Ukraine, which has seen some of the war's worst fighting. |
| 1:39.3 | These guys here are Wagner men who have died today, he says. The blood is fresh. |
| 1:48.5 | The camera then turns to show tens of bodies lying on the ground. Progogian angrily addresses |
| 1:54.0 | the camera again. Now listen to me, you sussi, these are someone's father and someone's son. |
| 2:03.4 | And those who are not giving us any |
| 2:05.5 | ammunition will be in hell, munching on their insight. |
| 2:10.3 | We have a 70% shortage of ammunition. |
| 2:14.1 | Progogian then directly addresses the Russian defense minister and the head of Russia's armed forces. |
| 2:22.7 | Shoygu, Gerasimov. Where is the f***, ammunition? |
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