Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko may be trying to 'whitewash' his conversations, an expert said, as both Russia and Belarus distance themselves from the incident.
Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the latest after Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane crashed inside Russia, on 'Special Report.'to watch his back following his brief mutiny against the Russian military that ultimately led to his apparent demise this week.
"I told him: ‘Yevgeny, do you understand that you will doom your people and will perish yourself?'," Lukashenko told Prigozhin, according toOutlets have variously reported Prigozhin’s response to this warning as"To hell with it – I will die,""I will die then, damn it!" and"To hell with it, let me be killed!"
"I told him: ‘Yevgeny, I will send you a rope and a piece of soap right now’," Lukashenko continued, to which he claimed Prigozhin said,"No, no, no. I don't want it this way. I will die a hero."The comment about rope and soap is an apparent Russian idiom that refers to preparing a noose for hanging – or that Prigozhin should just hang himself now, an expert told Fox News Digital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin embraces his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko during a meeting in Moscow, Russia December 29, 2018. Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool via REUTERS Lukashenko claimed he later told Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, another Wagner leader, to"watch out" when they visited him. BELTA did not specify when the second conversation may have occurred.
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