Leaked docs show 'Putin's chef' is increasingly at odds with the Russian leader over Wagner mercenary deaths

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads the mercenary Wagner Group, appears to have turned on Vladimir Putin.
• Prigozhin's ties to Putin go back to the 1990s when his catering companies served the Kremlin.
• On Thursday, Prigozhin vowed to withdraw troops from Ukraine, blaming Putin for their deaths.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Group of mercenaries — previously called "Putin's chef" for his ties to the Russian President — has offered his army-for-hire to the Kremlin for years, most recently sacrificing them to the "meat grinder" of war in the city of Bakhmut in support of Vladimir Putin's dreams of victory over Ukraine.

But his decades-long allyship with the Russian leader may be coming to an end.