The head of the Wagner Group mercenary army has returned to Russia about two weeks after he was granted safe haven in Belarus following his aborted mutiny against Moscow's military leadership, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said Thursday.
On Thursday, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said he couldn’t confirm whether Mr.“We don’t follow his movements. We have neither the ability nor the desire to do so,” spokesman Dmitri Peskov said, according to The New York Times.said he had a telephone conversation with the Wagner Group leader on Wednesday in which they discussed the mercenary army’s future.
“He told me one thing, ‘I will work for the good of Russia and will fulfill our duty to the end,’” the Belarusian president said, according to BelTA, the country’s state-owned news agency.but said he doesn’t believe the mercenary army leader’s safety is in question.
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