Wagner chief Prigozhin is in Minsk lodge with out window: 'Assassination feared' | World News

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin landed in Belarus and is staying in one of many few motels within the capital Minsk that doesn't have any home windows, a US official claimed. The Wagner chief was instructed to flee to Belarus as a part of a deal to finish his group's armed revolt and was final seen in public leaving the southern Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don after calling off his troops. There was hypothesis about his whereabouts since then however US Senate Intelligence chair Mark Warner instructed NBC News that Prigozhin is in Minsk.

“I perceive, actually as I used to be approaching air, that he says he is in Minsk and he really is. And get this – that is simply stories – that he's in one of many solely motels in Minsk that doesn't have any home windows,” he stated.

This might be to guard him towards assassination makes an attempt, he added. This comes because the Kremlin claimed that it has no data about Yevgeny Prigozhin. Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters that the deal ending the mutiny was being applied as Russian president Vladimir Putin all the time saved his phrase. The deal's phrases included Prigozhin relocating to Belarus. He and his mercenary fighters would keep away from legal expenses, with the Federal Safety Service (FSB) dropping its investigation.

Earlier, Vladimir Putin praised members of Russia's army and safety forces in a ceremony. The Russian chief instructed safety personnel on a sq. within the Kremlin complicated that the individuals and the armed forces had stood collectively in opposition to the insurgent mercenaries, Reuters reported.