minister and army chief, you animals are sitting there, he says, and think you have the right to decide their lives, he bawls. it was extraordinary criticism of russia s high command. and he followed it up with unprecedented action. leaving what he called a march for justice towards moscow effectively a wagner military uprising that challenged kremlin authority. a deal was done to call off the rebellion as prigozhin s forces advanced on the russian capitol. but a furious president putin called it a stab in the back from a man he regarded as loyal. he was in the service to the kremlin, first as its catering contractor in the 1990s that earned prigozhin the nickname putin s chef. and prigozhin emerged as one of russia s most powerful figures.