Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia - and Vladimir Putin will not 'wipe' him out.
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia - and Vladimir Putin will not"whack" him.may be in St Petersburg or Moscow, and insisted he is"absolutely free", adding his Wagner troops remain at the camps where they had stayed before the group's aborted coup attempt last month.
"As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he is in St Petersburg where he is this morning, maybe he went to Moscow, maybe somewhere else but he's not in the territory of Belarus", Mr Lukashenko said."What will happen to him next? Well, things happen in life. But if you think that Putin is so malicious and vindictive and that he will, to say in plain Russian, whack him somewhere tomorrow - no, this will not happen. It will not happen," Mr Lukashenko said.
Last week, Mr Lukashenko confirmed the exiled leader was in his country following a Belarus-brokered deal between the Kremlin and Prigozhin which brought an end to the mercenary chief's armed mutiny on 24 June. Mr Lukashenko, a close ally of Mr Putin, did not specify the location of the camps but Prigozhin's mercenaries fought alongside Russian forces in Ukraine before their revolt.His comments follow Russian media reports claiming Prigozhin was spotted in St Petersburg.Sky's security and defence editor Deborah Haynes says if the reports are true, they speak of"unresolved issues".
She said:"If he is actually on his way to Moscow that doesn't speak of defiance, it speaks more of unresolved issues surrounding the whole extraordinary affair, which only two and a half weeks ago saw the Russian president facing the gravest threat to his authority during more than 20 years in power."
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