Belarus president says head of mercenary group is in St Petersburg and may be moving on to Moscow
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The Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end Wagner’s armed mutiny, has said the mercenary head Yevgeny Prigozhin had returned to Russia.
“As for Prigozhin, he’s in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus,” Lukashenko said. “Where is Prigozhin this morning? Maybe he left for Moscow.”
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