Galeotti said: “I think we can safely describe this as a hit.”
“This could be a warning, or taking a pawn off the board, or a sign that Mr Prigozhin’s more thuggish rivals feel he is weakened enough that they can move.”
Mangushev provoked some ire last year, when footage emerged of him waving a skull of a Ukrainian soldier killed on stage in Mariupol.
The twisted ultranationalist said: “Why can’t there be any reconciliation?”
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