According to state media, Lukashenko urged Putin not to 'waste' Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and has said he will take in exiled rebels and Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
“I said to Putin: we could waste , no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second. I told him: don’t do this,” Mr Lukashenko said, during a meeting with security officials, according to state media.last week, will be in Belarus on Tuesday, under a deal that ended his revolt. The 68-year-old authoritarian leader has been hit with Western sanctions for cracking down on opposition figures and allowing Russia to attack Ukraine last year from Belarusian territory.
Kremlin critics have accused Mr Putin of orchestrating the killings of several prominent government opposition figures and the near-fatal poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny. AFP
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