The Belarus deal also removes Yevgeny Prigozhin's control of Wagner, but it's unclear whether any of his fighters would follow him.
reportedly negotiated the deal. But Prigozhin’s maverick ways are at odds with Lukashenko’s harsh repression of dissent and independent media. In power since 1994, the leader often called “Europe’s last dictator” launched a brutal crackdown on 2020 protests against his rule; hundreds were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.
This video grab taken from a handout footage posted on May 20, 2023 on the Telegram account of the press service of Concord shows members of Wagner group waving a Russian national flag and Wagner Group's flag on the rooftop of a damaged building in Bakhmut, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This video grab taken from a handout footage posted on May 25, 2023 on the Telegram account of the press service of Concord shows Yevgeny Prigozhin talking to his fighters in Bakhmut.
The Belarus deal removes Prigozhin’s control of Wagner, but it’s unclear whether any of his fighters would follow him to Belarus, either out of a sense of loyalty or due to dismay with being absorbed into the Russian military as contract soldiers.
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