The poorly understood Rodnovery pagan religion is at the heart of Wagner’s most notorious unit of fighters who want vengeance for their murdered leaders.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/ReutersAll eyes are on the Russian mercenary group Wagner in the aftermath of a mysterious plane crash that presumably killed the group’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and his right-hand man, Dmitry Utkin, last week. Angry over what many suspect was an assassination plot ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, many factions within the infamous mercenary group are now emerging with shadowy threats of vengeance and violence.The “Ru
AS this piece was being written, it had been established that Yevgeny Prigozhin, a preeminent figure in the Ukraine war as the leader of the mercenary paramilitary organization Wagner Group, had been killed in a plane crash. Not only did his name figure in the flight s manifest but one of the bodies had Prigozhin s unique characteristic: a missing finger. Geneticists had also identified that body as his. What has not been established yet and perhaps will never be was the cause of his death. Did Prigozhin die in an aviation accident or was he assassinated?
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