By Dominic Waghorn, worldwide affairs editor
No one needs to be sentimental about Yevgeny Prigozhin.
He was a felony and a ruthless killer. His favorite technique of execution was crushing victims’ skulls with a sledgehammer.
If he has now been killed by the person who made him, within the gangster politics of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, it’s a suitably violent ending.
His Wagner forces have massacred, raped and plundered their method throughout Africa.
And they’ve spearheaded Mr Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, which has been marked by related atrocities.
Prigozhin was additionally known as on by Mr Putin to subvert American democracy with a military of trolls whose cyber meddling has helped polarise the US.
There is a hazard that Prigozhin is romanticised as the one Russian to dare stand as much as the Putin regime in what was the largest menace to its rule.
But he was a nasty piece of labor by any measure, an ideal henchman to his gangster president who raised him up, used him and has now destroyed his personal creature, it appears, after he turned towards him.
