The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko confirmed to the state agency BELTA on Tuesday that the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is already in Belarus.
The Belarusian president revealed that he had asked his ally Vladimir Putin not to kill Prigozhin. “I told Putin, we can waste it, no problem. If it’s not on the first try, it will be on the second. I told him, don’t do that,” Lukashenko said during a meeting with security officials, Lukashenko said. state-owned press releases.
On Saturday, the deal brokered by Alexander Lukashenko to end the uprising called for Prigozhin to move to Belarus, leaving his army to choose whether to follow their leader, join the Russian army join or go home.
Yevgeny Prigozhin has not been seen since Saturday, when he left the city of Rostov-on-Don after ordering his mercenaries to withdraw from the march on Moscow.
Also according to BELTA, Lukashenko added that his defense minister, Viktor Khrennikov, told him that he wouldn’t mind having a unit like Wagner in the Belarusian army, so he instructed his minister to talk to Prigozhin to negotiate.
According to a US official, Prigozhin is staying in one of the few hotels in Minsk without windows.
Source: DN
