Belorussian President and Vladimir Putin’s ally Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that the Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was in the Russian city of St Petersburg.
Observers say Prigozhin’s latest stunt is in total defiance of the agreement reached with the Russian authorities after his short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin.
The Wagner chief had agreed with the Russian officials that he’d leave the country and live in exile in neighbouring Belarus to avoid persecution — the President of Belarus had mediated the deal.
During the chaotic days, the mercenaries claimed to have taken control of some military facilities in two Russian cities with a large number of trained fighters headed to Moscow.
After coming across the mutiny, Kremlin deployed heavily armed troops to the streets in the Russian capital, showing a scene as if a civil war was about to start.
The insurrection was ended within days after Russian authorities reached a deal with the Wagner chief that he would be sent to the neighbouring Belarus.
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