The Kremlin said on Thursday it is not tracking the movements of Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reportedly went into exile in Belarus after the June 24 failed riot, but whom Minsk guarantees is currently in Russia is located.
“No. We’re not going through the motions [de Prigozhin]. We don’t have the time or the will to do it.”said Russian presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the usual morning press conference.
Earlier, the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko stated that the leader of the mercenary group is currently in Russia.
“As for Prigozhin, he is in Pietro [São Petersburgo]. It is not on Belarusian territory,” Lukashenko said. in a meeting.
Peskov declined to answer the question of whether Prigozhin is violating the terms of the pact reached with the Kremlin at the end of June, insisting he could add nothing to what has already been said.
A week ago, the Belarusian leader claimed that Prigozhin had arrived in Belarus under the agreement that ended the June 24 armed uprising led by Russian mercenaries and brokered by Lukashenko.
The Russian daily Fontanka wrote the day before that Wagner’s head was seen on the 4th of this month in St. Petersburg, where he recovered a pistol and other weapons seized during a police investigation.
Source: DN
