prigozhin fit right in.ew a single hotdog stand into a chain of restaurants. >> we can only guess outcome prigozhin so quickly opened top restaurants, and gained more and more power and business opportunities while putin was rising to the top. >> volodymyr putin was a mid level kgb agent who had just become adviser to the mayor of st. petersburg. and he had a sinister amberley implant rebuild the state after it collapsed by getting the intelligence services and the mob to work together. >> that has a long history that dates all the way back to the soviet union. that's how i got to know vladimir putin. >> prigozhin's fanciest restaurant, new island, became a hangout for putin's inner circle. soon, putin would make prigozhin his personal caterer, earning him the nickname putin's chef. >> the best indicator that putin trusted prigozhin is that prigozhin served food for him. knowing putin's paranoia, he could not have had anybody in charge of his diet. >> i think what prigozhin achieved in all of those years, th

prigozhin offered a solution. a small, private security company called the wagner group. it had been used to conduct covert military operations along russia's border. putin was now asking prigozhin to use the wagner group to prop up the syrian regime. >> it is really serious -- syria this cemented his rise on many levels. that was probably one of the most difficult assignments. >> it was the perfect arrangement. for putin, the mercenaries provided a layer of covenant culver and deniability. for progression, it is a chance to expand wagner's footprint. >> putin and the people around him created faulkner with prigozhin as a way to have some distance from some military operations that they wanted to do a broad, but didn't want it to be known as the russian state. >> it's a paramilitary cartel, primarily run with the assistance, direct assistance of putin's ministry of defense from day one. >> wagner fought alongside assad's murderous forces as they carried out atrocities. >> assad's troops massacred thousands of wome

is prigozhin under arrest? where are his wagner fighters so crucial to the ukrainian war and even is he alive? the kremlin is doing everything it can to diminish, disparage, discredit him on state television press. images broadcast to millions showing putin's security forces raiding prigozhin's home, and they're showing an extensive collection of wigs, cash, gold, and weapons and even that giant stuffed alligator. a russian television feature program digging into the former hot dog vendor's past including why he spent nearly a decade in prison. and they're actually delving into and just discussing often accusation that prigozhin assaulted a woman, squeezing her until she lost consciousness in order to steal her jewelry. this is what's on russian state television. and it's not the only thing dominating russian air waves. our exclusive conversation with president zelenskyy raging propagandists with the issue of nato. here they are taking issue to president zelenskyy's plea with biden. zelenskyy making his dramati

prigozhin at some point, putin cut him off and prigozhin was unable to get to him. he started yelling -- he was a dead man walking without putin's protection. -- he realized he was no longer needed and used the last straw. he announced this march on justice. there was the family of one soldier who moved their families. all the nice pictures -- so anyway, that's what happened. >> thank you. i would appreciate your views. in addition, what do you think is happening now? prigozhin has not appeared on until june 26. at first he arrived in belarus, then he said he is not there, he is in moscow. government investigators have seized 10 billion rubles from prigozhin headquarters in st. petersburg and returned it to prigozhin. there are reports that he has been arrested but not seen since early last week. what do we make of this information? how do we put it together? unmute yourself so we can understand your insights. >> i should know how to turn my mute on. thank you, that's a great question. when you step back and look at this and stripped it bare, what you have is russia

prigozhin he is in saint - prigozhin he is in saint petersburg.ng or somewhere else. he is not on the territory of belarus. lukashenko also said the question of whether the wagner units would relocate to belarus was still in the balance, and would depend on the decisions taken by moscow and by wagner. he made those comments to a very small gathering ofjournalists — including the bbc�*s steve rosenberg. translation: less than two weeks ago — translation: less than two weeks ago we _ translation: less than two weeks ago we were _ translation: less than two weeks ago we were told - translation: less than two weeks ago we were told that | weeks ago we were told that alexander —— alexandr lukashenko had brokered a deal under which the mutiny would end and under which the mutiny would end an: , ., ., end and yevgeny prigozhin would move from _ end and yevgeny prigozhin would move from russia _ end and yevgeny prigozhin would move from russia to _ end and yevgeny prigozhin would move from russia to belarus - end and yevgeny prigozhin would move from russ

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to the extent that putin-- excuse me, prigozhin survives this, i'm skeptical that he will. i think that vladimir putin ultimately has to bring prigozhin to heel, he may take his time in doing it because that's his style and he may also be limited in what he can do to prigozhin right now, but i don't see how the two of them continue to exist within russia. putin can't allow that. >> you just mentioned your belief that putin will eventually have to bring prigozhin to heel. do you mean a judicial process for prigozhin or do you mean some sort of extra judicial action, obviously, russia has a long history of going after --. >> yes. >> dissidents. what do you expect? >> it could be any number of things. i mean, putin, it seems to me recently in public statements that he and the russian government have made about the extraordinary amount of money that prigozhin's corporate entities have made from the russian government and hints about corruption, there's the prospect for future legal action in the russian judicial system against prigozhin, even if putin sticks to his word and doe

send in the prigozhin troops. >> (speaking russian): >> putin gave prigozhin the authority to go into> (speaking russian): >> prigozhin was pretty good at this. he'd spent a bunch of time in prisons himself, as a prisoner, so he knew how to talk to prisoners, and he got a lot of them into wagner, into his forces, by promising them amnesty. >> (speaking russian): (man yelling in background) >> narrator: prigozhin's army of convicts and battle-hardened mercenaries laid waste to ukrainian cities. (explosions pounding) >> wagner mercenaries are somewhat united in their brutality and in all of the human rights abuses that they commit together. it almost binds them together in a way that you wouldn't have if they were abiding by regular rules of war. because they are complicit in a, in a huge crime, and they know it. >> narrator: in russia, wagner's brutal successes made prigozhin a star. >> prigozhin styles himself as a man of the troops. he's in fatigues. he's in combat gear. he's there on the frontline with his troops. >> (clapping) >> prigozhin is almost overtly recalling the kind of ma

, the man who led that mutinyjust prigozhin, the man who led that mutiny just over prigozhin, the manjust over a week ago, which threatened vladimir putin's authority, apparently he is still a free man, but what people are saying, alexander lukashenko has been speaking to journalists today. he has said that mr prigozhin is not in the country. now, that is not what he said ten days ago, he said that mr prigozhin was there, he had offered to let him bed down for a while, but that same evening we tracked a private jet linked to mr prigozhin flying back to russia, the has been over the past week or so. it has been turning its radar of every so often, but it appears to be there. it does not clear whether he is on board. there was one report in saint petersburg claiming he had been seen there, but again we can't stand that up. what we do know is that images from searches of mr prigozhin�*s house, a very luxurious if tasteless residents outside st petersburg, those images have been emerging, and they do appear to make fun of mr prigozhin to undercut him because these images show his multiple

now that prigozhin is in st. petersburg, was there is a deal, is he going to be prosecuted after this raid? what is your read on this news? >> it is priceless actually. we knew about a week ago when putin said by the way, the russian government has given prigozhin roughly $2 billion and we hope not too much was taken, or kind of an indication, we knew at that point that the other shoe could definitely drop. and that prigozhin could not necessarily be killed but he could be prosecuted for corruption. and i think that the play is working out exactly like that. this deal is essentially putin's deal with lukashenko playing role of trying to help putin by creating this deal, it doesn't work, and maybe it was never supposed to work. so if prigozhin now is on state television or his department is with money and wigs, et cetera, just an example of the government now putin's government coming up with the proof that prigozhin should be prosecuted. that prigozhin was too dangerous for putin to allow to continue to exist whe

headquarters and returned it to prigozhin. their reports that -- it's been arrested in been arrested and he hasn't been seen since early last week. how do we put it together? and let us understand insights. >> for a guy who rents a podcast i should know how to turn my off. i t would certainly say i agree with what everybody said and i would add when you step back and look at this and it when you have is a case of russians killing of the russians because they disagreed about how to kill ukrainians. and what does that say about the state of mind of russia? this is effectively what the russians call a settling of scores between two underdogs prigozhin and -- and the way its result and what happens in its aftermath is very important to thee strength of this crime goig forward and this i i think creas the paradox. the first paradox of the problem is here. political change come to russia with three factors. the divided the lead which we have at the moment when you have disaffected public which we have at the moment and most importan

there is no survey on prigozhin. the mood i was able to gain when i spoke with people in the country, they actually said they are not enthusiastic about the potential transfer of prigozhin wagner to belarus. they are asking what they will do in belarus. wondering what role there would be. they were involved in wars before. the fear that people feel is kind of tangible but apart from anecdotal evidence i've mentioned, there is also an interesting piece of source of evidence i would say published, one of the most notorious propagandists and they published a post in which he said that many belarusians received the news about the wagner arrival negatively. they were talking about how we should improve the image of wagner. there were people with sledgehammers running around scaring people, but thoughtful people as well. they actually see how the propaganda is strengthening the image. perhaps one of the wagner militants with belarusian roots is now talking about wagner and [indiscernible] we see how the propaganda strength

he has prigozhin and he has prigozhin's men, the wagner people. so what do you do with prigozhin.igozhin is kind of a road scholar, you know, at least for a while winning battles, taking wagner, et cetera. but he was very value only because he ran this big operation that literally around the world especially in conflict zones and also we can't for get running the factory in st. petersburg that interfered in the american election in 2016. so this die guy had a lot of po and of course that is a problem when there is a rebellion against putin. so i think what you are doing is the deal was organized ultimately by putin, that deal with lukashenko. lukashenko is a soviet era guy saying, well, i don't know what is going on. and so prigozhin is apparently back in st. petersburg. why in t? that is where his office and residence is. so i think they will probably prosecute him for corruption. and you see that playing out on russian tv. and then of course you have to figure out what to do with wagner which is another issue. it is very valuable. but back to the basics, putin created this becau

russians when he labeled prigozhin a traitor or he is afraid to arrest prigozhin. neither explanation is a good look for the kremlin strongman. well, meantime on russian state television, the propagandists are very busy pushing one of their favorite topics why nuclear war may be inevitable in the context of all of this. they say if ukraine starts using those controversial cluster munition, which the u.s. is now providing to ukraine, then it's time for nukes. >> translator: this is a very serious weapon. and if ukraine, for one, gets their hands on them, then we will have to take serious steps in protecting our armored vehicles from this weapon. it's a very serious weapon. >> translator: just for our understanding, we are to hang in there for a bit longer, and then we'll win. otherwise nuclear war. >> otherwise nuclear war. i want to begin with fred pleitgen on this remarkable putin/prigozhin meeting that the kremlin is saying happened. it's incredible that they're not giving any video evidence of it. it's certainly not something they wanted to talk about. but now t

you have served — is going soft on prigozhin. you have served under _ is going soft on prigozhin.asion of georgia. in light of what we are seeing now, what we�*ve been seeing for the past 18 months, do you think the united states misread vladimir putin? trio. do you think the united states misread vladimir putin?- misread vladimir putin? no, i don't think— misread vladimir putin? no, i don't think the _ misread vladimir putin? no, i don't think the united - misread vladimir putin? no, i don't think the united states | don�*t think the united states misread putin. i mean, iwas the ambassador in russia from 2014 to 2017, and i got there six months after the russians had invaded crimea. so i don�*t think anybody had any illusions. to the extent that there was a surprise, it was that he decided, in 2022 in february, to go all—in and to throw 100,000 of his forces into a fight in what has clearly now evidently been a strategic miscalculation of the first order. and it�*s not only not achieved his objectives, but russia, i think, is in a difficult position. we�*ll see. it's difficult po

i saw it in that context rather than as a move to rehabilitate prigozhin. there are still efforts to try to bring the wagner groups into the regular army. so i don't think this is necessarily a signal that putin is going soft on prigozhin. you have served under both the obama and trump administrations. you've witnessed russia's invasion of georgia. in light of what we are seeing now, what we've been seeing for the past 18 months, do you think the united states misread vladimir putin? no, i don't think the united states misread putin. i mean, i was the ambassador in russia from 2014 to 2017, and i got there six months after the russians had invaded crimea. so i don't think anybody had any illusions. to the extent that there was a surprise, it was that he decided, in 2022 in february, to go all—in and to throw 100,000 of his forces into a fight in what has clearly now evidently been a strategic miscalculation of the first order. and it's not only not achieved his objectives, but russia, i think, is in a difficult position. we'll see. it's always easier — all

. >>> also tonight, where is prigozhin? the wagner mercenary leader supposedly exiled to belarus for leading a mutiny against the kremlin. has he returned to the motherland? and what will vladimir putin do to him there. >>> and marjorie taylor greene, is she too much even for the conservative freedom caucus? reports she may have been voted out by her fellow republicans. >>> we begin tonight with breaking news, what multiple sources are telling cnn about that turbulent december 18th 2020 oval office meeting involving the former president rudy giuliani, disgraced general michael flynn, lawyer sidney powell, and a former dot com ceo. our kaitlan collins is part of the reporting team which has the exclusive. she joins me here. so what have you learned? >> this is essentially something that has been a continued interest of jack smith's, but appears to be a new one, he and his team are asking witnesses coming before his team or the grand jury about this meeting. and there were a lot of chaotic meetings in the trump white house. t

can you confirm whether yevgeny prigozhin does have cancer or not?ave never heard that from any of my sources. you've not read it on proekt? no, no, no, no, itrust them. that's their information. they are the only source i've heard that from. but none of my sources could confirm that. are you still in touch with your sources? because, i mean, you've been out of russia now for...since february last year. 0h, definitely i'm in touch with my sources, and a lot of people are still ready to communicate, are still ready to talk, because for many top russian bureaucrats, it's very important to feel that they are decent people, they are not accomplices, at least they consider themselves not to be accomplices to the regime. so they are talking much more willingly than they used to speak before the beginning of the war. and what have they all been saying to you about the mutiny by prigozhin and the wagner group? they say that that's the signal that the system is starting to collapse, and probably.... one of my very informal sources told me that before the muti

yevgeny prigozhin or the man who resembles yevgeny prigozhin says they will stay in belarus for someime. they are being treated there as brothers and as heroes, and they probably will move to africa. yevgeny prigozhin started wagner group in africa in south sahara africa, actually, and they worked in syria also. we know a lot of horrifying stories from syria that wagner group was part of, so now it seems that yevgeny prigozhin is staying in belarus for, again, as he said, some time, most probably to help lukashenko if there is some danger the regimen fighting for ukraine -- regiment fighting for ukraine, and they say they have the goal to free belarus from the regime of lukashenko, so they will probably stay for safeguarding lukashenko and his regime, but the biggest part will most probably move to africa -- come back, i would rather say, to africa to where they have started working. >> we think they are going to be possibly a useful asset in the short-term and keeping a lid on any internal issues that he might face. what about the fighters themselves? they must be a little bit disor

i think vladimir putin ultimately has to bring prigozhin into heel. he may take his time and doing it because that's his style and haley -- he may be limited in what he can do to him right now. but i don't see how the two of them continue to exist within russia. he can't allow that. >> you mentioned your belief that he will have to bring prigozhin to heal. do you mean judicially or an extrajudicial action? russia has a long history of going after dissidents. what you expect? >> it could be any number of things. putin recently, in public statements that he and the russian government have made about the extraordinary amount of money that prigozhin's corporate entities have made from the russian government, hints about corruption. there's the prospect for future legal action in the russian judicial system against prigozhin, even if putin sticks to his word and doesn't prosecute prigozhin for the mutiny. but the russians are also well trained in taking extrajudicial action, whether it's within russia as they did with alexi novelli or elsewhere, particular

ultimately has to bring prigozhin to heal. may take his time in doing this because that is his style and he may be limited in what he can do to prigozhin right now but i did not see how the two of them continue to exist within russia. putin cannot allow that. >> you mentioned your belief that putin will have to bring prigozhin to heel. do you mean a additional process or some sort of extrajudicial? what do you expect? sullivan: it can be any number of things. vladimir putin, seems to me recently, in public statements that he and the russian government have made about the extraordinary amount of money that prigozhin's corporate entities have bayed from the rough -- russian government and hence of corruption. or is a prospect for future legal incidents against prigozhin, even if president putin sticks to his word and does not prosecute prigozhin for the mutiny. but the russians are also well trained in taking extrajudicial action. whether it is within russia as they did with alexi, or elsewhere, particularly in europe in berlin

and then, president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it — prigozhin his men to turn back and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so, what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailov, news editor of bbc russian. nobody expected that it's going to come to the point when he's going to take over one of the biggest cities in the south of russia with more than one million population and seize the headquarters of a southern army command which is in charge of operations in ukraine. so to that point, yes, unexpected. but other than that, prigozhin is such a character and his private army has come to such a level of influence on the front line — and also in public opinion because he's able to deliver his views on the war, on the generals and how the war is conducted, his disagreements, his feelings and his views to millions and millions of russians via social media. so, we knew that something's going to come up — but in such a scale and in such a huge way that it could affect the

prigozhin received for fraud.ew the criminal world well and communicated with the convicts in their language. naturally. here are the prisoners, so to put it simply , they believed. to him they went after him taiga medved prosecutor figuratively speaking, but on the other hand, of course, to abuse some norms. there, ethics by law in society is also impossible, in fact, because society does not forgive this either. it is known that many fighters of prigozhin's private military company, having heard about the president's forgiveness on june 24, were very surprised. they realized that prigozhin simply led them astray and betrayed them. after all, before that. he assured the fighters that he was going to save the president, allegedly from the leadership. the ministry of defense understands that the wagnerites are pushing them to commit crimes. they themselves cleared several sections of roads in the rostov region and began to return to their bases on the same day, investigators came to prigogine's house. you came as c

mercenary mystery, where is the russian wagner bus prigozhin. -- boss prigozhin.he leader of belarus said he is probably in russia. coming up, a russian rocket strike kills at least five people. the mayor saying it's the biggest attack on the infrastructure of the city since the invasion began. plus we look at how the disinformation more about ukraine is reaching a big audience angst to spanish. mark zuckerberg's metta taking on twitter with a new social media platform, threads. millions have already signed up. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers in the united states and all of you around the world, welcome. the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin are unclear tonight. the leader of belarus says that prigozhin is in russia. probably with thousands of fighters and that he is not in belarus as we had believed to be the case. the kremlin says that it is not keeping tabs on the whereabouts of the wagner boss. >> the mystery continues over the whereabouts of yevgeny prigozhin. the boss of wagner has not been seen publicly since leading an armed road against moscow. he had rep

as for prigozhin, he is in st petersburg. he may have gone to moscow this morning or somewhere else. he is not on the territory of belarus. the only thing that the kremlin is concerned about is potential for next armed rebellions from other actors and they are also really concerned about making sure that prigozhin doesn't go down as a martyr. so what is happening, what is actually going on — who knows? good evening, it is good to be back on the programme after a period of extended leave. the back is on the mend, i think, post—surgery. thank you to everyone who sent such kind messages. and a good night to return, plenty for us to get into — including the claim that yevgeny prighozin is back in russia. if you thought the wagner leader was in exile indefinitely, think again. what does that mean for the war in ukraine? difficult day for number ten. the standards committee says former government whip, chris pincher, should be suspended for eight weeks for groping two men in a london club. it will likely trigger another by—election

also tonight, where's prigozhin? no word from the wagner mercenary leader supposedly ex out to belarus for leading a mutiny against the kremlin. as he returned to the motherland? and what will vladimir putin due to him there? and marjorie taylor greene, is she too much, even pretty conservative freedom caucus. a report that she may have been boarded up by her fellow republicans. we begin tonight with the breaking news, what multiple sources are telling cnn about that turbulent december 18th 2020 oval office meeting, involving the former president on the disgraced general michael flynn, lawyer sydney powell and former dot com ceo. our kaitlan collins is part of the reporting team that has the exclusive. she joins me here. what have you learned? >> this is essentially something that has been of continued interest to jack smith and has been a renewed one, based on what we're hearing, which is that he and his team are asking witnesses commit before either his team or the grand jury about this meeting. there were a lot of

>> full disclosure i do not know where yevgeny prigozhin is.ut i'm not surprised we've seen the back and forth in terms of trying to figure out where he is. we heard from him since that failed mutiny last week but we haven't seen him and he didn't say where he was. there was speculation and people online who watched the space closely. who assumed and thought they had spotted prigozhin around st. petersburg the last few days. yes, he may have in belarus, that was the line last week but even if he had been in belarus, which is just an arm of russia at this point and they do have an extradition treaty. if putin wanted him back he could have him back any time. my guess, only a guess, vladimir putin doesn't know what to do with yevgeny prigozhin. he was a huge asset for him leading the wagner group for so many years. now he said he would pardon him for treason, doesn't mean he won't be charged with anything else, perhaps tax evasion, corruption, and we've seen these new images from the russian state media of the police raiding his home, finding mone

as for the prigozhin, he is in st.sburg, there are no risks from placing the dude wagner in belarus, this happens, i can't see it at all. this is not the case about which they try to strain me from all sides with experience. which has wagner and commanders. hey, i've talked about this openly before. they will gladly hand over to our armed forces. i mean, the military experience that they received, another subject answered lukashenka about russian tactical nuclear weapons in belarus, and at the same time appreciated the work of western intelligence. do i understand correctly, you posted it so that no one in the west noticed. yes, no one noticed as i see it, because that is what you are discussing along with our fugitives who are following this process. these are complete fakes. i have already said that we did not move anything by rail. but this does not mean that we will not move by the end of the year for sure, but i think much earlier we will completely move. uh, warheads that are designed for and most importantly, pe

prigozhin should have weapons. uh, yevgeny prigozhin's secret wigs is a question. his house, another secret of yevgeny prigozhin was a collection of passepartouts with the same photo, but different names , surnames, it turns out yevgeny prigozhin , aka dmitry geller, aka oleg semyonov, aka dmitry bobrov, during the release , suspicious people got into the photo bundles with white powder, some journalists suggested that these are drugs, if these are really drugs, then a criminal case is initiated under article 228.1. uh, and uh, the authorities are obliged to proceed with the identification of persons who are, uh , directly and directly related to uh, the possession of these substances in social networks and public places, and earlier there were reports of interest in prohibited substances from the side of prigogine himself and his adult children. they gave themselves. here is the son pavel daughter nika in depends. in the company of friends, singing characteristic songs. we need one person party party clearly fun and good twenty-year-old pavel prigogine a successfu

lukashenko also down played his relationship with prigozhin and said putin and prigozhin were actually better friends. why do you think he's changed his tune? he sounds so different than he did a few days ago. >> reporter: i know. it's incredible. clearly friendship with yevgeny prigozhin has become less an asset and more of a liability. but remember, it was the supposed friendship between prigozhin and lukashenko, the leader of belarus, that the kremlin had initially said was the reason the two men could so easily do a deal but today, alexander lukashenko is saying look, it's putin knows prigozhin much better than i do, they've known each other for 30 years. so he's really trying to putt some distance between him and the wagner leader because it's a liability to be in good else ares with him. >> and lukashenko told you he doesn't have any regrets about the war in ukraine because he, quote, did not take part in this process. but he's been helping the russians all the time. how is he able to justify that? >> reporter: i know. he didn't like that question that i threw at him about the fa

we know that prigozhin and putin has been at odds. prigozhin has been very company value critic of the generals on the ground and president putin's approach when it comes to the russian invasion of ukraine often calling publicly in videos for further weapons to be supplied to the wagner mercenaries working within ukrainian territory. and criticizing the lack of support that has been offered by the russian government and the russian defense ministry. so there are certainly a lot of questions around the relationship now between president putin and yevgeny prigozhin where that stands now given the fact that he is indeed in russia. >> and there is a certain amount of incredulity when you consider how much any dissent a cracked down on in russia. that leader could undermine putin's power that much could be in russia. >> and matthew is in the press conference, he will be on air when he comes out. >>> coming up, rescuers are digging through rubble trying to save lives after a deadly missile strike far from the frontlines in ukraine. >>> and

he essentially called yevgeny prigozhin a traitor. the kremlin said that yevgeny prigozhin was going to have to go to exile into belarus. now we're learning that prigozhin was inside the kremlin with 35 other commanders just a couple days after that mutiny took place and the kremlin, jake, gave some details as to what was spoken about. they said that vladimir putin listened to what these commanders had to say. apparently they pledged allegiance to vladimir putin. there was one thinat caught our attention. i want to read you what was said. quote, the president gave an assessment of the actions of the campaign at the front during the military operations, essentially how the war was going, as well as events of june 24th, the mutiny orchestrated by yevgeny prigozhin. putin listened to the explanations provided by the commander and offered them options for deployment. there are some that believe that means the wagner military company could make a comeback to the battlefield of ukraine. it's not clear what role yevgeny prigozhin would play

the searches took place in the mansion of prigozhin near st.ersburg, an area of ​​​​about one and a half hectares, on the site there is a swimming pool, indoor parking, a basketball heliport managed to leave from here. the interior decoration deserves special attention, the marble floor in the form of a checkerboard boards, spacious living room in the center branded sledgehammer with an inscription in case of important negotiations. there is also a billiard table. winter garden with huge greenhouses. further, the jacuzzi is everywhere with a slick shine. during the search , the operatives found a lot of cash in bags and boxes of gold, this ingot weighing 5 kg. and also a large number of weapons published by the security forces, footage of searches live on the program 60 minutes, eduard petrov commented to journalists look. how many weapons are there? uh, we need to check where this weapon is from? to whom we belongs each person must keep a weapon with permission to have five. well, let's one two, three four five six, there are seven trunks. all

evgeny prigozhin's empire dozens.ndirectly associated with the infamous businessman used complex financial schemes that existed on public money, according to journalists in 2011 , prigogine's firms received over 5,000 government contracts totaling almost 210 billion rubles. and this is only according to minimal estimates based on open data, often competitive procedures. passed in violation of antitrust laws with the help of raider operations. we deliberately focused on the northern capital, because here were the headquarters and the main companies of concord megaline, after all, and holding the patriot group wagner, the scale of the business was inextricably linked with the scale of ambitions to take his st. petersburg, perhaps, the leningrad region, that is, through such a method through the war through direct participation in the war through wagner to increase its potential to increase its, say , hardware resources and so on, and already with completely different from the other weight category is there to rise above

prigozhin owned a chain of expensive restaurants.t friendship, that relationship, developed into what we were seeing today. st. petersburg is also where yevgeny prigozhin's home was, so that is one reaso why he might want to go there, but also a lot of questions are being asked right now about what he might be doing in belarus if it does go to belarus eventually. we have seen pictures, satellite images, apparently showing bases being built in belarus not far from the border with ukraine, bases which might be used by wagner fighters. that has led to concerns that wagner might attack from the north. now, ukrainian officials are playing them down, but at the end of the day, all we have is a lot of uncertainty surrounding both yevgeny prigozhin's whereabouts and his intentions. the last we heard of him was a saturday and he spoke about a car rally that was held in siberia and he thanked people for their support, but said absolutely nothing about where he was or what he was planning to do. >> more questions and speculation. meanwhile, in