Is Wagner Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin Dead?

The lack of published photos from the alleged meeting further casts doubt on its occurrence. Nonetheless, if true, it suggests a U-turn in Putin’s opinion of Prigozhin, as he had previously condemned him as a “traitor.”

“We just don’t know how this is playing out,” Keir Giles, a Russian security expert from Chatham House, told The Sun.

He referenced Winston Churchill‘s iconic quote that looking at Russian politics is “comparable to a bulldog fight under a rug.”