Belarus’ Lukashenko says Wagner leader Prigozhin is back in Russia

The mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his Wagner troops are in their field camps, Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday. “He’s in St. Petersburg. He might have left for Moscow or for somewhere else, but he’s not on Belarusian territory,” Lukashenko said.

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