A former employee of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s “troll factory,” a graduate student who found himself near the fighting and a soldier from Rostov-on-Don, the city occupied by the rebels.  Two years after Wagner’s stunning rebellion against the Russian military leadership, eyewitnesses recalled their memories of one of the most chaotic days in Russia's recent history in comments to The Moscow Times. ‘I was impressed — but not for long’ Polina, 22, was working for RIA FAN, the St.