Private jet of the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin landed today at the Machulishchi military airfieldnot far from Minsk, according to the Belarusian investigative team Gayun, which monitors military activity on the territory of Belarus.

The plane landed at 07:37 local time (04:37 GMT), according to the flight tracking page Flyradar24.

This is an Embraer Legacy 600 with registration number RA-02795. included in the US sanctions list in 2019 for his association with Prigogine, albeit with the old M-SAAN registration.

According to Gayoun, another private jet with the number RA-02878 took off from St. Petersburg and landed at 07:58 local time also at the Machulishchi military airfield.

It is not yet known if Prigogine was on board one of these planes. after reaching an agreement with the Kremlin on Saturday, go into exile in Belarus and not be prosecuted in exchange for an end to the uprising.

Already on the eve of some channels Telegram they claimed that The 62-year-old businessman was seen in a Minsk hotel.

Wagner’s boss was seen last time in public on the night of the 24th when he drove out in a car from the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, which he and his mercenaries took to start a column march on Moscow from there.

On Monday, without disclosing his whereabouts, he posted an audio message on his channel. Telegram to with armed rebellion I didn’t want to overthrow the government but in protest against the intentions of the Department of Defense to liquidate their private military company by forcing it into submission to a military establishment.

According to the Russian investigative portal Important Stories, Prigozhin flew after the riots in Rostov-on-Don to St. Petersburg, from where he made other flights on Sunday to return in the afternoon to the former imperial capital of Russia.

Kremlin official Dmitry Peskov said today that he has no information about where the head of the Wagner group is.

“I don’t have any information about it. I can’t tell you anything.” Peskov stated this at his traditional daily telephone press conference.

(EFE)