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Lukashenka assures that the leader of the Wagner group has returned to Russia

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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenkoconfirmed this Thursday that the leader of the Wagner Group, Evgeny Prigozhin, is no longer on the territory of Belarus and that, in fact,

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenkoconfirmed this Thursday that the leader of the Wagner Group, Evgeny Prigozhin, is no longer on the territory of Belarus and that, in fact, returned to Russiacountry where he launched an uprising that called into question the leadership of Vladimir Putin.

Prigozhin traveled to Belarus as part of a pact with which the Russian authorities They promised not to accuse him of rebellion, although there is only a statement by Lukashenko, in which he confirmed the arrival. The leader of the Wagner group made no further public appearances and limited himself to distributing voice recordings.

Now the Belarusian President assured that Prigozhin went to PetersburgQualifying this, he does not know where “this morning” is. “He may have gone to Moscow or somewhere else, but he is not in Belarus,” Lukashenka said in a speech published by the official BelTA news agency.

Moreover, he assured that Your country will sign a legally binding treaty with the Wagner Group, although so far the details of their stay in the country have not been specified, since the mercenaries have a “different vision” of their deployment.

Photo: Reuters file

“At the level of law or presidential decree the framework within which this unit will work will be determined” in Belarus and “everything” will be established in it, the head of state said at a meeting with foreign and Belarusian media, the official BelTA agency reports.

Lukashenka, however, explained that the issue of Wagner’s deployment in Belarus after the failed June 24 riot and the agreement he reached between the mercenaries and the Kremlin still not resolved.

“We don’t build camps. We offered them several old military camps used during the war. Even near Osipovichi,” he said, southeast of Minsk.

“But the Wagner group has a different vision for its deployment. Naturally, I won’t tell you what the vision is.”he added, although he revealed that the main question was where the mercenaries would be.

Pictured is Alexander Lukashenko. Photo: Reuters file.

Kremlin evades Prigozhin’s whereabouts: ‘We don’t track his movements’

The Kremlin ignored doubts this Thursday about the whereabouts of Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he was in Russia despite being a little more than a week ago, he stated that he was on Belarusian territory as part of the pact.

“We do not track their movements. We have neither the ability nor the desire to do so,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in press statements, according to official Russian news agencies.

Peskov refused to answer the question. on whether Prigozhin violates the terms of the agreement with the Kremlin at the end of June and insisted that at this stage he could add nothing more to what had already been said.

Russian environment fountain wrote the day before that Wagner’s boss was seen on July 4 in St. Petersburg, where he was returned a pistol and other weapons seized during a police search.

(According to information from Europe Press And EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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