Although Prigozhin insisted that last month’s rebellion was not “to overthrow Russia’s leadership” but rather to “avoid [the] destruction of Wagner,” sources have warned the 62-year-old Wagner leader to be wary of possible assassination attempts.
“If I was him, I would be very careful what I ate and where I went,” British MP Tobias Ellwood said after Prigozhin was exiled to Belarus. “Putin mops up any dissenting voices himself – he will be plotting.”
“What he did in the last few days didn’t happen instantaneously,” Ellwood continued. “It has been building for months and months and months.”