DAILY STAR
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin may have been exiled to Belarus from Russia but his influence in the country could continue with his ‘troll’ empire.
Putin’s days looked numbered on Saturday as Prigozhin and his “skinhead zombie troops” looked like taking Moscow and ousting the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
However, after taking Rostov-on-Don, the feared brigade suddenly halted their advance on Moscow, with Prigozhin saying he wanted to avoid ‘spilling Russian blood’.
After some negotiations between the Kremlin and Prigozhin, the rebel leader was then shipped off to Belarus and the Wagner group was disbanded, with its hordes of criminals-turned-fighters being absorbed by Russia’s army.
According to Russians news outlet Bumaga, translated via anti-Kremlin Russian news site Meduza, the former chef has an empire formerly known as the Internet Research Agency, and has been using it to influence social media commentary about the invasion of Ukraine.
