The fight against cancer of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhinmay have played a role in his decision to have an apparent mutiny against Moscow, a report said. Wagner is one paramilitary organization of Russian descent that has served the president Vladimir Putin. However, on June 24, they attempted to make themselves known.

Proekt, a Russian outlet now banned by Russia, originally quoted claims from former Prigozhin employees saying that had cancer treatment. They revealed that his stomach cancer was improving after serious therapy.

A former worker said the march to Moscow last month could show the mentality of a man with little to lose. When asked what might have triggered the armed uprising, an anonymous source said: “This is a man with his stomach and intestines cut out!”

The leader’s mutiny, which began on June 24, a ‘march for justice’ was declared to remove Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov from their posts. Prigozhin clashed with the National Armed Forces of Russia during the war, sending his private mercenaries to the front to die.

Six Russian army helicopters and an aircraft were reportedly shot down in the clashes. But the mutiny failed to achieve its aims, since Prigozhin negotiated peace through Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko before entering Moscow. Finally, all charges against the leader of the Wagner group were dropped so that he could return to Belarus.

That was reported earlier this week Vladimir Putin had held secret talks in the Kremlin with Prigozhin after the riot. An unannounced session was held on June 29 attended by 35 people, including senior Kremlin officials and several Prigozhin commanders, the Kremlin admitted.

In meeting with the Wagners, Putin listened to the commanders’ explanations of what had happened and offered them other options to continue working and fighting. The meeting was first publicized by the French newspaper ‘Liberation’, which stated that Prigozhin had met with Putin and the head of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov; and also with the head of the SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin. “All we can say is that the president has given his verdict on the company’s actions [Wagner] on the frontline during the special military operation and also gave his assessment of the June 24 events,” Peskov told reporters.