Wagner Group's Fabricated Reports and Kremlin Scapegoats

A think tank, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), has suggested that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group, fabricated a press request regarding an alleged plot involving Russian President Vladimir Putin and a Russian official seeking to undermine Wagner. The ISW believes Prigozhin likely did it to bolster his own reputation and to further "the next evolution" of his "campaign against the Russian military establishment." Prigozhin has become a recognized figure in the war in Ukraine, and his forces were said to help Russia make battlefield advances.