How Putin's chef became the second-most powerful man in Russia - podcast

Yevgeny Prigozhin went from hot dog seller to the commander of a private army fighting intense battles in Ukraine. But his rapid rise has made him a target, reports Pjotr Sauer When Russia's troops rolled into Ukraine last February it was with the strategy of quickly overthrowing the government in Kyiv and installing one more friendly to Vladimir Putin. It was, said the Russian president, a 'special military operation'. But the operation failed and ever since more and more troops have been neede...