Russia will allow Wagner Group fighters who participated in paramilitary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s aborted uprising to go into exile in Belarus, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Those who wish will be able to leave for Belarus,” Putin said in a brief address Monday, two days after Wagner Group fighters halted their sprint toward Moscow. “The promise I made will be kept.”Putin struck a magnanimous pose toward the rank-and-file Wagner Group fighters, whom he portrayed as “patriots of Russia” who were manipulated by their leaders into participating in the fight.
“The military and political situation is very complicated, including along the border of our country,” Belarusian Security Council State Secretary Aleksandr Volfovich said Monday in a commencement address to the academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, per Belarusian state media. “And the political situation in our country largely depends on the ability of our system to maintain law and order. ... You are the core of this system, and you must ensure law and order.
“Yeah, that could be a problem for Belarus because even if that could be just two brigades of Wagner fighters, that would be enough to organize a coup in a country like Belarus, of course,” a senior Ukrainian government adviser said.
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