Who is Yevgeny Prigozhin? The Wagner Group’s leader who is in charge of a civil war in Russia June 24, 2023 Gist Lovers 0 The owner of private military contractor Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has marched his mercenary forces into the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, in what many have called a declaration of civil war on the Russian state.