RUSSIAN TYCOON YEVGENY PRI-gozhin’s relationship with his longtime ally President Vladimir Putin appears to have reached a breaking point, with the one-time caterer resorting to publishing expletive-ridden videos on social media to get his voice heard amid the war in Ukraine.
Prigozhin, who earned the nickname “Putin’s chef ” thanks to his catering contracts with the Kremlin, heads the notorious paramilitary outfit the Wagner Group. He has been pouring his fighters for months into the city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine alongside conventional troops as part of a push by Moscow to secure its first major battlefield victory since the summer of 2022. He was viewed by the Kremlin as a key instrument in the war.
But cracks began to show in the businessman’s relationship with the Kremlin when he displayed an appetite for
