The Patriot media group of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the financier of the Wagner Group, has announced the termination of its work after the recent failed rebellion initiated by Prigozhin's mercenaries, but its fate is not finally decided, and Prigozhin's troll accounts continue to be active on the Internet.
The Russian public television channel, Rossiya 1, broadcast a special edition on Wednesday evening, July 5, about the leader of the Russian paramilitary group
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The Prigozhin-Wagner mutiny of 23-24 June failed. Nevertheless, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries only 2,500 to 5,000 troops in total managed to overrun two major southern Russian cities and get to within 200km of Moscow before a deal was struck and Wagner returned to their bases. Putin felt obliged to come to terms with the rebels. Prigozhin is an advocate of a harsher Russian war in Ukraine and his rebels were demanding the Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, and the head of the army, Valery Gerasimov, be removed for incompetently prosecuting Russia’s war.