“It seems to me that this film should be called: ‘A dog dies a dog’s death,’” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is the financier of Wagner Group and is considered a close ally of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.Typically, Mr Prigozhin would fly into a remote Russian prison colony by helicopter with a ‘Hero of Russia’ medal pinned to his pseudo-military uniform and then lecture convicts on their duty to defend the “Motherland”.Reports said that he had been traded back to the Russian side in a prisoner exchange before he was killed by Wagner Group mercenaries.The sledgehammer has become a favourite tool for Wagner fighters to dish out punishment and torture.Some analysts have said that the emergence of Wagner Group as an important auxiliary force to the Russian army since its invasion of Ukraine suggests that Mr Prigozhin, himself a convicted criminal, covets a more senior role inside the Kremlin."