A screen grab captured from a video shared online shows Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking in a desert area while wearing camouflage in a video for the first time after his rebellion in an unspecified location, possibly in Africa, on August 21, 2023.Wagner Account/Anadolu/Getty Images Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was "exiled" to Belarus after staging a short-lived mutiny in Russia. But his whereabouts over the following two months remained murky, and he may have remained in Russia. Here's what we know about what he was up to before Russian officials say he was killed in a plane crash. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet that crashed in Russia on Wednesday, two months after he led a short-lived armed rebellion against Russian President Vladimir Putin's defense ministry.Russia's civil aviation agency said Prigozhin was on board the plane and among the 10 people who were killed."He seems to have spent the last two months fighting for his life, as it were," said Simon Miles, an assistant professor at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy and a historian of the Soviet Union and US-Soviet relations.
How Wagner Boss Yevgeny Prigozhin Spent The Mysterious 2 Months Between His Failed Coup And His Plane Crash — From Strange
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