Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin suffering from abdominal cancer, says Russian media

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary company, who staged an armed mutiny in Russia in late June, has been suffering from cancer, according to a report by Russian Telegram channel the Project on July 12.

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The report cites two of Prigozhin’s employees, who claimed that he has abdominal cancer. One source stated that Prigozhin underwent “serious therapy” and that “the process of tumor formation seems to have stopped.”

Prigozhin’s employees suggest that his illness may have influenced his decision to start a mutiny.

“This is a man with a cut-out stomach and intestines!” one of the sources said.

The report also states that Prigozhin leads a healthy lifestyle, adheres to a strict diet, and has a meticulously equipped medical office in his suburban home.

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An employee reported seeing him drink a glass of lemonade only once. During a search of Prigozhin’s residence, pro-Kremlin media published photographs of a room containing a resuscitation bed, an artificial lung ventilation apparatus, and an oxygen concentrator.

According to the Project, Prigozhin received treatment at the elite Sogaz clinic as one of its first “super VIP” clients under the pseudonym Dmitry Geyler. A passport bearing this name, but with Prigozhin’s photograph, was discovered during the search.

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Prigozhin announced the start of an armed conflict with the Russian Ministry of Defense on June 23, stating that 25,000 of his mercenaries would “restore justice.” However, after his column reached Moscow Oblast, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s press service announced that Lukashenko had held talks with Prigozhin. Prigozhin then called off the march on Moscow and turned his columns around.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin on June 26 offered three options to Wagner PMC militants who participated in the attempted mutiny, including an offer to go to Belarus.

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Lukashenko announced that Prigozhin was already in Belarus on June 27. The Belarusian Hajun monitoring project reported twice on the landing of Prigozhin’s plane near Minsk.

But later, Lukashenko said that Prigozhin was in St. Petersburg, and there were no Wagnerites in Belarus as of July 6.

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