the notorious troll form to set up the disinformation around the 2016 presidential u.s. election. but when his footers took to the battlefield in eastern ukraine and began winning battles, prigozhin seemed to want the spotlight. the bakhmut operation began on octoberth, 2022, in order to give the embattled russians to recover. we gave them 22 days. there were only private force here. reporter: his tactics included flinging the so called poorly trained troops into the meat grinder. prigozhin rubbed his victories in the face of russia s flailing defense department, venting his fury at the haphazardness and ill-planning of russia s illegal invasion and chastising the