Alexander Lukashenko insists that Wagner fighters will remain in the country.
MOSCOW: Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko said today that he had warned Russian mercenary chiefs Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin to watch out for possible threats to their lives, and he insisted that Wagner fighters would remain in Belarus.
Lukashenko, who helped broker the deal, used prison slang shortly after the mutiny to say that he had persuaded Putin not to “wipe out” the mercenary who was listed as a passenger on a private jet which crashed on Wednesday north of Moscow. Lukashenko said that during the mutiny he had warned Prigozhin that he would “die” if he continued to march on Moscow, to which he said Prigozhin had answered: “To hell with it – I will die.”
It was not exactly clear from Lukashenko’s words, which were reported by state news agency Belta, when that conversation took place.
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