Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin flew into exile in Belarus on Tuesday (Jun 27) under a deal that ended a brief mutiny by his fighters, as President Vladimir Putin praised his armed forces for averting a civil war.
Early on Tuesday, flight tracking service Flightradar24's website had shown 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.Prigozhin's fighters had captured during the mutinyPrigozhin had last been seen 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 also requested a minute of silence to honour Russian military pilots killed in the revolt. Wagner fighters hadduring their run towards Moscow, although they faced no resistance on the ground. He also delivered a late-night televised address on Monday in which he said that the mutiny leaders had betrayed their motherland, although he did not mention Prigozhin by name.
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