Yevgeny Prigozhin ruined any chances of a political future when he marched on Moscow in a mutiny attempt, a former Russian diplomat has told Newsweek.
"Prigozhin had his chance on Saturday," Boris Bondarev, Russia's first and only diplomat to publicly quit over Putin's war in Ukraine, said when asked whether Prigozhin has a political future after he and his fighters abandoned their"march for justice," advancing from southern Russia to within 120 miles of Moscow.
Prigozhin's paramilitary outfit, the Wagner Group, was brought into Putin's war in Ukraine by the Kremlin after Russia failed to take Kyiv in the spring of 2022. Military observers have assessed that as the war dragged on, the Kremlin establishment sensed Prigozhin had greater ambitions, and he was seen as becoming more dangerous in terms of his political persona.
Prigozhin's aim was"to get a formal government post, or a big political leadership role, i.e., to convert his military assets into tangible economic and political assets inside Russia," said Mykhnenko.
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