'War criminal' Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is 'not welcome' in Belarus, opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya tells LBC's Andrew Marr
Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus on Tuesday following the uprising on Saturday, which he claimed was a protest at the prospect of the notorious private army being disbanded in July, not an attempt to topple the Putin regime.
Lukashenko brokered the deal between Putin and Prigozhin that saw the Wagner leader give up the mutiny in exchange for being allowed to move to Belarus.She added: "He's a war criminal, and he can bring this war into Belarus. And we as a nation don't want this. We heard from Prigozhin that Lukashenko promised him to legalise the Wagner Group. But what it means in practice we don't know.
Yevgeny Popov, a deputy in the United Russia party, told Andrew that "no one is safe from Russian justice"/. Branding Prigozhin a "traitor", the MP added: "If you’re waiting for a coup, if you’re waiting for a crisis, if you want to change the regime in Russia, you’re going to wait forever. He said that the aim of the march was not to bring down Vladimir Putin's regime, but to show the group's displeasure at the decision to shut down Wagner Group on July 1.
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