The shaven-headed man spits obscenities into the camera. Thrusting his head forward and glaring at the viewer, he unleashes a volley of abuse at Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov and Minister of Defence Sergey Shoigu. The man is Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of brutal Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group — and he is desperate.Prigozhin is at war on two fronts. On the ground, his forces are dying in ever greater numbers on the frontline in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. On video and in print, he is taking on the Russian elites he so despises.And recently he escalated his campaign to an unthinkable level in a new video. We have a 'happy Grandpa', he says, snarling into the camera. 'But how do you win a war,' he asks sarcastically, 'if it turns out that this Grandpa is a complete d***head?'
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