Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia, Belarus's president says, raising questions about the deal to end the mercenary leader's mutiny last month
The Kremlin says it is "not following" Yevgeny Prigozhin's movements, nearly two weeks after the June 23 mutiny that saw armed fighters on the march toward Moscow.Images broadcast by Russian media on Wednesday showed police entering Prigozhin's residence, a vast and luxurious mansion with a helicopter parked in the grounds, reportedly on June 25. / Photo: AP
"As far as Prigozhin is concerned, he is in Saint Petersburg... He is not in Belarus," Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for nearly three decades, told reporters from foreign media outlets in Minsk on Thursday. Speaking in the presidential palace, Lukashenko said he knew"for sure" that Prigozhin was a free man, adding:"I spoke to him on the phone yesterday".
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