Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin was a Russian mercenary leader, rebel commander, and oligarch. He led the Wagner Group, a private military company, and was a close confidant of Russian president Vladimi
Prigozhin in 2016
Prigozhin (standing in background) hosted Russian President Putin and US President George W. Bush on his floating restaurant New Island in Saint Petersburg on 25 May 2002.
Touring the Concord Catering factory in 2010. Left to right: Presidential envoy to the Northwestern Federal District Ilya Klebanov, Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishchenko, Leningrad Oblast Governor Valery Serdyukov, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Concord factory director Yevgeny Prigozhin
Bakhmut in April 2023. At the end of April, Prigozhin said that his forces were losing around 100 men a day.
As part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian state and state-controlled media have spread disinformation in their information war against Ukraine. This disinformation has also been spread a
A Russian propaganda rally in Sevastopol (Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine) in April 2022, portraying the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a defence of the Donbas. The slogan reads: "For the President! For Russia! For Donbas!"
Russian mural of a pro-war "Z" symbol and the slogan "truth is with us".
Russian presenter Vladimir Solovyov has broadcast disinformation and propaganda supporting the invasion of Ukraine.
Pro-Russian activists with a sign likening the Ukrainian government to the Nazis, and waving a Victory Banner