Wagner Chief Reemerges to Say Mercenaries Moved to Belarus
- Video appears showing Prigozhin addressing Wagner troops
- Leader says group to spend time in Belarus, may go to Africa
Yevgeny Prigozhin
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Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin emerged publicly for the first time since the aborted mutiny in Russia to declare the mercenary group has moved to Belarus “for some time.”
Prigozhin is heard welcoming a large number of fighters “on Belarusian soil” in a grainy video shot in poor light that was posted Wednesday on a Telegram channel linked to his group. There was no indication of where the video was taken or on what day, and Bloomberg News couldn’t independently verify it.