Igor Mangushev, an affiliate of the private mercenary Wagner group, was shot in the head at close range in eastern Ukraine over the weekend. He claims to have created the “Z” symbol of support for the Russian invasion.
, having done disinformation work for companies ensconced within Prigozhin’s media and consulting empire.Mark Galeotti, a London-based political scientist and expert in Russian security affairs. “Was this about him or a proxy attack on Prigozhin? Obviously at this stage, impossible to say.”analyzing the situation, Galeotti concluded that “his could be a warning, or taking a pawn off the board, or a sign that Prigozhin's more thuggish rivals feel he is weakened enough that they can move.
An established face of the Russian invasion’s agitprop campaigns, Mangushev is perhaps best known for a fiery speech last summer in which he held what he claimed was the skull of a Ukrainian soldier. “We’re alive, and this guy’s already dead,” he told a crowd. “Let him burn in hell. He wasn’t lucky. We’ll make a goblet out of his skull.”
He has also asserted that he and his associates came up with “Z” symbol of support for the Russian invasion, according to
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