What Prigozhin’s Death Means For Putin

On Wednesday, news began to circulate that the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, Prigozhin, died in a plane crash between St. Petersburg and Moscow (along with 7 of his top lieutenants). Just days prior, reports emerged that Russian military officials (not Wagner) had just met with Haftar in Libya. Normally, this would have been Wagner because Libya is one of its key stomping grounds (on behalf of the Kremlin). And on Tuesday, right before the alleged plane crash, Prigozhin appeared on a video (again, the legitimacy of the video cannot…