All news on the topic: Yevgeny Prigozhin

Russia has effectively dismantled and replaced the Wagner Group in the year since the mercenaries shocked the world by launching a mutiny against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC.

The attacks range from poisoning by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent, to getting shot at close range - while others have plunged to their deaths from an open window.

A Russian political analyst claims Yevgeny Prigozhin survived the plane crash thought to have killed him and his top commanders and is now lying low in an island paradise

The Wagner Group will be added to the list of other proscribed organisations in the UK such as Hamas and Boko Haram - allowing its assets to be seized and membership or support illegal

Yevgeny Prigozhin was confirmed dead after genetic tests were carried out on bodies found following a plane crash near Moscow, but footage has now emerged that seems to throw that into confusion

A solemn woman seen at the Porokhovskoye graveyard was earlier identified as the warlord’s reclusive wife Lyubov Prigozhina, but Russian media outlets later claimed it was Irina Krasavina, the wife of main body double

Yevgeny Prigozhin's widow and daughter have attended a closed-doors funeral for the Wagner warlord after his mysterious plane crash - but some have suggested he could still be 'alive and well'

The Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is "alive, well, and free" in an unnamed country, Dr Valery Solovey, a political analyst, said as he believes it was his body double who died

Footage has emerged of Yevgeny Prigozhin saying "if these screws are not adjusted today, then the whole plane will fall apart in the sky" months before he died in an aircraft crash in Russia

Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, was killed two months after he mounted a daylong mutiny against Russia's military that President Vladimir Putin decried as "treason"

Our pictures are taken from a video on a Russian Telegram channel which is said to have close ties with the security forces - clips are described as 'a security breach'

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko alleged he had received intelligence of a plot to wipe out the Wagner Group founder and sent a message to him via the Kremlin

Yevgeny Prigozhin used doubles and decoys to ensure his safety and was never without his group of handpicked bodyguards - but the ring of steel was not enough to protect him

On Wednesday of this week, Wagner Company mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was reported to have died in a plane crash north of Moscow, coming just two months after his short-lived putsch

Yevgeny Prigozhin's private jet was seen tumbling out of the sky yesterday, crashing to the ground before erupting in a fiery inferno in Russia's Tver region, killing all 10 people on board, including Prigozhin himself

Vladimir Putin said the Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who launched an ill-fated coup against Moscow, had 'made mistakes' - but a US intelligence official said the plane crash was suspicious

Vladimir Putin memorialised Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, as a man of "complicated fate" who had made "serious mistakes" in recent weeks during a televised address today

Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, was among the 10 people found dead in the wreckage of a light aircraft that came tumbling out of the sky into a field 500km from Moscow last night

Ten people - including Wagner fighters and deputy Dmitry Utkin - are said to be among those who perished when the jet crashed into a field in the Tzer region near Moscow

Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a short-lived armed coup against the Russian military earlier this year, is presumed dead after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all ten on board

Since the plane crash rumours have begun to swirl as who is responsible, with many believing it to be Putin in a revenge attack for Prigozhin's failed coup just two months ago

Yevgeny Prigozhin has been a dead man walking for two months since his so-called “march on Moscow” mutiny faltered - his death was inevitable after going too far for Vladimir Putin

Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is said to be among those who have perished, having reportedly been on Putin's 'kill list' following a failed coup against the Russian President

Wagner mercenaries are threatening to march on Moscow after reports claim Prigozhin, who led a coup against Vladimir Putin in June, is among the dead in a plane crash

The mercenary leader, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, is presumed dead after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 on board