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Prigozhin's mother recounts the last meeting with the former head of Wagner: He did not intend to overthrow Putin

2025-08-23 15:45:55Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Prigozhin's mother recounts the last meeting with the former head of
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In a rare interview with Russian media, Yevgeny Prigozhin's mother revealed that the founder of the notorious Wagner group was aware that he would not survive after the failed rebellion against the Russian military command in the summer of 2023.

"When I last saw him, he looked doomed," Violetta Prigozhina told Russian newspaper Fontanka, recalling the last meeting with her son a week before he died in the crash of his private jet. Asked if she had foreseen death, she replied: "Of course."

Prigozhin, who led Wagner, died two months after the coup attempt, when his forces took control of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and marched towards Moscow. The rebellion stopped abruptly, about 193 kilometers from the capital, after talks with senior officials and mediation by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to The Guardian.

"It was not intended to overthrow Putin," his mother declared. "He just wanted to get to the military leadership. He told me he couldn't shoot the young soldiers during the march."

Western intelligence believes that Prigozhin was killed through an explosion on the plane, on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in retaliation for the uprising.

After his death, Russian authorities immediately seized his vast business empire, which included mercenary operations in Africa, tech businesses, mining, and an extensive catering network that earned him the nickname "Putin's chef." The Wagner group was renamed the "Africa Corps" and now operates within Russian state structures.

His son, Pavel Prigozhin, 27, a former Wagner fighter in Syria, has been largely sidelined by the power struggle that followed his father's death.

In September 2024, Violetta Prigozhina won a case in an EU court, which ordered her removal from the sanctions list and demanded that the Council of the EU cover her legal costs. She and her nephew had been sanctioned as part of a wider campaign against the Prigozhin family.

However, she expressed dissatisfaction that she was recently denied a visa to travel to Hamburg, Germany, for medical reasons.

"Instead, I'm preparing a lot of exhibitions now," she said. In her gallery in St. Petersburg, one of the main works on display is a portrait of her son in Ukraine.


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