The warlord s comments are his first since his fighters escaped prosecution and were offered refuge in Belarus after the Wagner group mounted a failed mutiny.
The Wagner Group, a private army founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin in 2014, launched a short-lived uprising against the Russian military command during the last weekend of June.
After Ukraine and Russia, Belarus is also recording the first cases of political conscientious objectors refusing to participate in military mobilization