July 6 () –
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, affirmed this Thursday that the leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeni Prigozhin, is no longer in Belarusian territory and that, in fact, he has returned to Russia, a country where he launched a revolt that put into question Vladimir Putin’s leadership trial.
Prigozhin traveled to Belarus as part of a pact with which the Russian authorities promised not to charge him for his rebellion, although only a statement by Lukashenko confirming the arrival of said transfer is recorded. The leader of the Wagner Group has not reappeared in public and has limited himself to the dissemination of voice recordings.
Now, the Belarusian president has assured that Prigozhin has gone to St. Petersburg, clarifying that he does not know where he is “this morning.” “Maybe he went to Moscow, or to another place, but he is not in Belarus,” Lukashenko concluded, in a speech picked up by the official BelTA news agency.