Yevgeny Prigozhin is the leader of the militia Wagner, "victor" in Bakhmut. He remains a protégé of the master of the Kremlin, whose dirty works he executes.
The city in Donbass, which once had 70,000 inhabitants, now offers only a spectacle of apocalypse. It is therefore a Pyrrhic victory, immediately contested by Kiev which still claims to control the city. It has become emblematic of the war launched by Vladimir Putin in February 2022.