Belarusian chief Alexander Lukashenko has mentioned Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia – and Vladimir Putin is not going to “wipe” him out.
Mr Lukashenko mentioned Prigozhin could also be in St Petersburg or Moscow, and insisted he’s “absolutely free”, including his Wagner troops stay on the camps the place they’d stayed earlier than the group’s aborted coup try final month.
Ukraine conflict newest: Prigozhin not in Belarus, says Lukashenko
Prigozhin has not been seen in public because the failed mutiny and hypothesis has continued over his future and that of his mercenary group.
Last week, Mr Lukashenko confirmed the exiled chief was in his nation following a Belarus-brokered deal between the Kremlin and Prigozhin which introduced an finish to the mercenary chief’s armed mutiny on 24 June.
Mr Lukashenko didn’t specify the placement of the camps, however Prigozhin’s mercenaries fought alongside Russian forces in Ukraine earlier than their revolt.
Prigozhin’s temporary rise up noticed Wagner fighters rapidly sweep over the southern Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don and seize army headquarters there earlier than marching on Moscow in what he described as a “march of justice” to oust the Russian defence minister and the final workers chief.
Source: information.sky.com”