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R650R
Basic bio is after a prison term he became a hotdog vendor(who knows what really could have been), somehow moved up into larger catering meeting Putin along the way. From there the right contracts flowed and eventually hired guns perhaps started paying more than wedding cakes.
But yes you’re pretty correct a thug with contacts and contracts.
A lot has been made of bahkmut but apparently he lost one men for every two Ukrainian while Russian forces using stand off attack weapons are 10-1 ratio the other way around.
Without the free supply of convict manpower it wouldn’t have worked out so well.
After his prison term he did start by selling street food. It wasn't hotdogs though, that detail was just for American consumption. He did set up restaurants one of which became popular with Putin and his buddies as you said. He then set up a major catering organisation. He also set up the St Petersburg troll farm, the IRA, which busied themselves with the 2016 US election among other things. The Wagner group operated in Syria and is currently believed to operate in Africa. I may be mistaken but I think the convict thing is recent. A reaction to Russia's massive military losses in Ukraine.
Putin is presumably offended by Preghozin's recent efforts as he has released information about how many billions the Russian state has siphoned off to finance the Wagner group.
There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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