Ex-hot dog salesman turned Russian warlord behind gruesome executions

Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin has ensured Wagner’s mercenary fighters a given a strong incentive to fight hard on the front lines in Ukraine with those who do not comply at risk of being mercilessly beaten to death. The Wagner Group is known for its heinous tactics, such as tying up pirates, dousing them in petrol and setting them ablaze.

In one case an alleged traitor was bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer by Prigozhin, a former hot dog salesman, who is said to have remarked that it was “a dog’s death for a dog”.

A British mercenary has described an incident off Africa’s east coast where Wagner operatives had caught some pirates.

They said: “They tied them up, put them back in their boat, poured petrol over them and lit them.

“If you’d said something they wouldn’t have thought there was anything strange — ‘That’s what we do to pirates’.”

His brutal tactics used to send troops to the front lines of Bakhmut – known as the “meat grinder” – could explain how a former hot dog salesman rose to become of Putin’s most powerful chiefs.

It comes as Russian authorities blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies on Monday for orchestrating a bombing at a St Petersburg cafe that killed a Russian military blogger who fervently supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, and they arrested a suspect.

Prigozhin, a St Petersburg millionaire restaurateur, said he owned the cafe and allowed patriotic groups to use it for meetings.

He said he doubts the involvement of Ukrainian authorities in the bombing, saying it was likely launched by a “group of radicals” unrelated to the government in Kyiv.

While not claiming responsibility for various explosions, bombings and other attacks within Russia since the invasion began, Ukrainian authorities have often greeted them jubilantly and insisted on Ukraine’s right to launch such assaults.

protection officer who worked directly for Vladimir Putin has defected from Russia labelling him a “war criminal”

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Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak responded to the news of the bombing by casting it as a result of infighting in Russia.

He tweeted in English late Sunday: “Spiders are eating each other in a jar,

“Question of when domestic terrorism would become an instrument of internal political fight was a matter of time.”

Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, was killed Sunday as he led a discussion at the cafe on the banks of the Neva River in the historic heart of Russia’s second-largest city, officials said.

Tatarsky, who had filed regular reports from the front lines in Ukraine, was the pen name for Maxim Fomin. He had accumulated more than 560,000 followers on his Telegram messaging app channel.

The bombing, which also wounded more than 30 other people, was the latest attack inside Russia on a high-profile pro-war figure. Last year, a nationalist TV commentator was assassinated when a bomb exploded in her SUV outside Moscow.

Investigators said they believe the bomb at the cafe was hidden in a bust of Tatarsky that a member of the audience gave him just before the explosion. A video showed him joking as he removed a wrapper to reveal the gold-colored bust of a man wearing a helmet, “What a handsome guy!”

Russian authorities announced the arrest of Darya Trepova, a 26-year-old St. Petersburg resident seen on video presenting Tatarsky with the bust, and classified the case as an act of terrorism. Police had detained Trepova for participating in a rally against the war on February 24, 2022, the day of the invasion, and she spent 10 days in jail.

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