Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin earlier said he was going to Belarus under a deal brokered by its president, Alexander Lukashenko.
Flight tracking website Flightradar24 showed an Embraer Legacy 600 jet, bearing identification codes that match a plane linked to Prigozhin in US sanctions documents, descending to landing altitude near the Belarus capital Minsk. It first appeared on the tracking site above Rostov, the southern Russian city Prigozhin’s fighters captured on Saturday.
He was last seen in public on Saturday night, smiling and high-fiving bystanders as he rode out of Rostov in the back of an SUV after ordering his men to stand down. Putin said Wagner fighters would be permitted to establish themselves in Belarus, and Prigozhin said Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko had agreed to let the group operate there.
“We went as a demonstration of protest, not to overthrow the government of the country,” Prigozhin said in an audio message.
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