Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin back in Russia, Belarus’ Lukashenko reveals

The president of Belarus said on Thursday that Russia’s mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops remain in camps where they stayed before the failed uprising. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko helped broker a deal on 24 June for Prigozhin’s mutiny in exchange for security guarantees for himself and his troops and permission to visit Belarus. After saying last week that Prigozhin was in Belarus, Lukashenko told international reporters on Thursday that the mercenary chief was in St. Petersburg and that Wagner troops were still in their camps. He did not specify the location of the camps, but Prigozhin’s mercenaries had fought alongside Russian forces in Ukraine prior to the uprising. The rebellion saw them occupy the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and capture the military headquarters there before marching on the Russian capital, which Prigozhin called the “March of Justice”, to remove the Russian Defense Minister and Chief of the General Staff. told.