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07-07-2023
MOSCOW: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end Wagner’s armed mutiny in Russia, says the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is no longer in Belarus, as was widely believed, but rather in St Petersburg.
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According to media reports, Belorussian President and Vladimir Putin’s ally Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that the Wagner Mercenary Group Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
Observers say Prigozhin’s latest stunt is in total defiance of the agreement reached with the Russian authorities after his short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin.
The Wagner chief had agreed with the Russian officials that he’d leave the country and live in exile in neighboring Belarus to avoid persecution, the President of Belarus had mediated the deal.
During the chaotic days, the mercenaries claimed to have taken control of some military facilities in two Russian cities with a large number of trained fighters headed to Moscow.
After coming across the mutiny, Kremlin deployed heavily armed troops to the streets in the Russian capital, showing a scene as if a civil war was about to start.
The insurrection was ended within days after Russian authorities reached a deal with the Wagner chief that he would be sent to the neighboring Belarus.
Russian state TV has launched a fierce attack on Yevgeny Prigozhin, the exiled boss of the Wagner mercenary force, saying that an investigation into the private army’s short-lived mutiny against the Moscow military leadership was still under way.
In a programme called 60 Minutes broadcast on Russia’s state Russia-1 TV channel, the Wagner boss was branded a “traitor” and viewers were told that the criminal case against Prigozhin was in full swing. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
