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Russia’s Wagner fighters have not visited Belarus barracks: Minsk

Journalists work in a tent camp, which, according to the Belarusian defence ministry, was set up for exercises at a disused military base near the village of Tsel in the Asipovichy district, Belarus July 7, 2023 [Maxim Shemetov/Reuters]

No one from the Russian Wagner mercenary group has yet visited a disused military camp that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has offered for Wagner’s use, according to an adviser to Minsk’s defence minister.

Under the terms of an agreement brokered by Lukashenko to end an armed mutiny by Wagner last month, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was supposed to move to Belarus along with those of his fighters who did not wish to sign up with the Russian defence ministry.

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