‘There are not any heroes’: Belarus president on Wagner mutiny in opposition to Vladimir Putin | World News

Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko who had brokered the deal to finish the Wagner mutiny mentioned that the mercenaries who rebelled in opposition to Russian president Vladimir Putin “very critical ones, are nonetheless within the camps they'd withdrawn to after Bakhmut.”

“As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he is in St Petersburg. Or maybe this morning he flew to Moscow. Or maybe he is some other place. However he is not in Belarus,” he advised BBC speaking about Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin who in line with the settlement between the group and the Kremlin was supposed to maneuver to Belarus, together with a few of his fighters.

This comes as Moscow and Minsk have differed on their public statements concerning the Wagner mutiny.

“I feel that no-one got here out of that scenario a hero. Not Prigozhin, not Putin, not Lukashenko. There have been no heroes. And the lesson from this? If we create armed teams like this, we have to keep watch over them and pay critical consideration to them,” Alexander Lukashenko mentioned.

What Alexander Lukashenko mentioned on nuclear warheads in Belarus

Speaking about nuclear warheads that Russia has mentioned it's shifting to Belarus, the chief mentioned, “God forbid I ought to ever should take the choice to make use of them. However I will not hesitate to make use of them. Joe Biden may say the identical factor, and Prime Minister Sunak. And my pal Xi Jinping and my Large Brother President Putin. In Ukraine an entire military is preventing with overseas weapons, is not it. Nato weapons. As a result of they've run out of their very own. So why cannot I battle with another person's weapons?"

Talked about human rights violations in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko was requested about jailed opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova.

"I do not know something about this. There is no such thing as a article in our legal code for political crimes. Prisoners can't be political prisoners, if there is no article," he mentioned.