of that time, he s said a group of patriots was born , which later acquired the name wagner battalion. and soon the wagner group reached far beyond ukraine. the fbi accused prigozhin of interfering in the 2016 us election. in syria, wagner fighters supported pro government forces. more recently there are multiple reports of wagner s military and commercial activity in africa. with the eu accusing the group of committing. torture and extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and killings. and then came the war. when putin wanted to give his invasion of ukraine impetus, prigozhin and his fighters were called in. but as wagner s death toll grew, so did prigozhin s fury. expressed first in video rants. and then in a short lived mutiny. in the aftermath, putin condemned the the mutineers and traitors. but for prigozhin, charges were dropped, no arrest followed. and we asked, why wasn t putin punishing prigozhin?