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A newly released video of Yevgeny Prigozhin purports to show the Wagner group boss in Africa addressing rumours about his wellbeing and threats to his life, just days before his death. “For everyone discussing whether I’m alive or not and how I’m doing. It’s currently a weekend in the second half of August 2023. I’m in Africa,” Prigozhin says in the short video published by the Grey Zone Telegram channel that is linked to Wagner group. “So for those who like to speculate about my liquidation, my private life, my work there, or anything else: everything’s fine,” Prigozhin says. His “weekend in the second half of August” reference suggests the latest clip must have been made on 19 or 20 August, a few days before his death. Prigozhin died when his business jet crashed on 23 August, two months after he staged an aborted mutiny against Russian military commanders in which his Wagner mercenary troops briefly took control of the southern city of Rostov and advanced towards Moscow. Weeks before he died
