Global Courant
ANKARA
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is not currently in Belarus, where he was exiled after the brief uprising of the mercenary group last month, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday, but Russia’s St. He said he was in St. Petersburg.
“As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he is in (Russia’s) St. Petersburg. Where is he this morning? Maybe he went to Moscow, maybe somewhere else, but not on the territory of Belarus,” Lukashenko told reporters at a press conference. In the capital Minsk.
Lukashenko stated that he does not see a risk for Belarus if paramilitary group fighters are deployed in his country, adding that they can be used for the defense of Belarus.
“As far as I know, the fighters – very serious fighters of the Wagner PMC – are in their permanent camps. They are in the camps where they are placed for recovery, treatment, rest, etc. after withdrawing from the front. There is a normal rotation for such a war. After (the clashes in Ukraine) they are in the camp where they are today. they were taken away.”
He underlined that the problem of relocating and deploying the Wagner Group to Belarus has not yet been resolved, and that it depends on the management of the paramilitary group and the Russian authorities.
On June 24, Prigozhin accused the Russian Ministry of Defense of attacking his fighters, declared a “March for Justice” and set off for Moscow.
Russia’s Federal Security Service described the Wagner Group’s actions as an “armed insurgency” and opened a criminal case against Prigozhin, while President Vladimir Putin called the private military company’s uprising “betrayal.”
However, Prigozhin later returned “to avoid bloodshed” and has since moved to Belarus under an agreement brokered by Lukashenko.
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