Here's a story going around. Ukrainian intel got to some Wagner solders and then to Prigozhin. Prigozhin listened to them saying big money was involved and then called Putin on a secure line. Whether it was Putin or Prigozhin who suggested it, a plan was hatched. This happened a couple months ago.
So Prigozhin showed interest while playing games with the Russian military. Prigozhin said to the Ukrain intel guy/people who is going to pay the money and how much. CIA agents showed up and they bartered and settled on the amount of $6.2 billions. The CIA had to get it so it went to headquarters in DC. Voila, the accounting department found that the U.S. had shorted $6.2 billion from Ukraine via accounting error of using new prices for used war equipment.
Then the money was delivered to Prigozhin and the show between Prigozhin and Putin was preformed. Now Wagner Group and the Russian military have $6.2 billion to spend and the CIA is throwing a fit. They so angry they going to make big mistakes going forward.
What a movie!