Belarus Leader Says He Told Wagner Chief to Stop or Be Crushed
- Lukashenko said Wagner mercenary chief had landed in Belarus
- Wagner mercenaries might settle in Belarus, join its military
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he personally intervened with Vladimir Putin and the founder of the Wagner mercenary group to prevent bloodshed during the weekend mutiny in Russia.
In Lukashenko’s version of the events, published by the state-owned news agency Belta on Tuesday, he persuaded the Russian president to let him reach out to Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin as his mercenaries marched unimpeded to almost 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Moscow.