Exiled Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is back in Russia weeks after his failed mutiny and his Wagner troops have remained at the camps they stayed in before an attempted mutiny against Moscow.
Having brokered a deal last month, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told reporters on Thursday: “As for Prigozhin, he’s in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus.”
President Alexander Lukashenko helped broker a deal under which Prigozhin ended his abortive mutiny on 24 June in exchange for security guarantees for himself and his soldiers. The deal allowed Prigozhin and his troops to move to Belarus.
Lukashenko said last week that Prigozhin was in Belarus. He told international reporters Thursday that the mercenary chief is in St. Petersburg and Wagner troops still were at their camps.
Vladimir Putin’s security chiefs previously said they had launched a criminal case against the head of the country’s mercenary forces for allegedly calling for armed mutiny.
