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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Wagner boss Prigozhin has returned to Russia, Lukashenko says

Yevgeny Prigozhin points towards the camera
Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking at the headquarters of the Russian southern military district in Rostov-on-Don in late June. Photograph: Telegram/@concordgroup_official/AFP/Getty Images

The Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has returned to Russia, the Belarusian president has said, despite a peace deal with the Kremlin under which Prigozhin had agreed to move to Belarus.

“As for Prigozhin, he’s in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus,” Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday. “Where is Prigozhin this morning? Maybe he left for Moscow.”

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