The chief of the Wagner private army that staged an aborted rebellion against the Kremlin’s military leadership last month is back in Russia, according to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
Russia’s Wagner mercenary company has suffered more than 100,000 casualties in the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo published on June 30.
Poland will reinforce its eastern border in response to the arrival of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group in Belarus, Polish weekly Wprost quoted Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński as saying on June 28.
A combination of factors suggests that a military camp for Russian mercenaries is being built in Belarus. Source: Belaruski Hajun [an independent Belarusian military monitoring media outlet], Radio Liberty, The New York Times Details: Currently, work is underway on the territory of the former military base No 61732 in the village of Ceĺ (Asipovičy district, Mahilioŭ Oblast), where the 465th Missile Brigade of the Belarusian Armed Forces was previously stationed.
Russian authorities said Tuesday they have closed a criminal investigation into the armed rebellion led by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, with no charges against him or any of the other participants.