‘A Lugansk chainsaw massacre’: Pro-Kremlin channel to premiere Prigozhin-backed film about Donbas war

According to Meduza's sources, Russian oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin has bankrolled another made-for-TV movie about mercenaries from the Wagner group. The film is scheduled to premiere on August 18, on the pro-Kremlin channel NTV - the same television network that released a Prigozhin-backed action movie about Russian fighters in the Central African Republic earlier this year. Titled "Solntsepyok" ("Blazing Sun"), this new flick is set in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and allegedly "based on real events." Publications linked to Prigozhin were the first to announce the film's release. One source who worked on another movie sponsored by Prigozhin described this latest project as an attempt to put forward a "romanticized propaganda version" of the mercenary group and thereby launder Wagner's image. Original Article: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/08/13/a-lugansk-chainsaw-massacre