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1961–2023 Russia
Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin (Alternatively: Yevgeniy Vicktorovich Prigozhin, Russian: Евгений Викторович Пригожин; 1 June 1961 – 23 August 2023) was a Russian oligarch and former close confidant of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin was nicknamed "Putin's chef" because his restaurants and catering businesses hosted dinners which Putin attended with foreign dignitaries.
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In a legal sense, Bakhmut has been captured.
I have never been a chef; I used to be a restaurateur and quite successful. I can't cook myself. They should have just come up with 'Putin's butcher' instead.
Don’t booze too much, don’t take drugs, don’t rape women — only for love or for money as they say.
We have to finish building beautiful bridges, we have to finish making big theaters, new stages, we have to have everything focused on defense now.
We will kill everyone on the battlefield. Take no more prisoners of war!
You have learned a great deal — first of all: how to kill the enemy.
The place to prove you’re right is on the battlefield.
What do you need to do with an organization that you consider a terrorist group? You must destroy the leader of the organization, basically me, of course.
We’re 25,000 strong, and we’re going to get to the bottom of the lawlessness in this country.
Carefully, precisely, surgically and the way we do it, the way we can.
Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere.
These are Wagner lads who died today. The blood is still fresh. They came here as volunteers and are dying so you can sit like fat cats in your luxury offices.
My advice to the Russian elites — get your lads, send them to war, and when you go to the funeral, when you start burying them, people will say that now everything is fair.
This is no military coup. This is a justice march. Our actions in no way interfere with the troops.
It turns out that the real men are fighting while some people just like to mess around.
We need to stop deceiving the population and telling them that everything is fine.
As a citizen, I am deeply indignant that these scum [Russia's Defense Ministry] are sitting quietly and wearing out their seats with their fat asses smeared with expensive creams.
Putin has "cut off communication with me to get me to stop asking for ammunition"
Penalties for war crimes should be seriously toughened.
I will make sure they will bear responsibility for it.
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