Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is rumored to have arrived in Belarus— his new home after launching an armed rebellion that served as the greatest threat in decades.
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is rumored to have arrived in Belarus—his new home after launching an armed rebellion that served as the greatest threat in decades to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s leadership. Independent Belarusian military monitoring project Belaruski Hajun said a business jet used by Prigozhin landed near Minsk early Tuesday, per the AP. Russian authorities previously dropped criminal charges against the 62-year-old and his fighters, saying they had « stopped their actions directly aimed at committing a crime, » per the New York Times. Prigozhin is to be exiled as part of a deal reportedly brokered by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to prevent Prigozhin’s forces marching on Moscow, while the Wagner Group is to hand over military equipment to the Russian Army.
