The private jet of Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin landed at Machulishchi military airport near Minsk , Belarus. This is reported by Ukrainska Pravda.

The plane, he writes, arrived at the airport at 6.40 am local time from Rostov-on-Don. A few minutes later another jet landed at the same airport from St. Petersburg .

After last Saturday's march towards Moscow , interrupted 200 km from the Russian capital, Prigozhin was seen in Rostov, while he was coordinating the withdrawal of his men from the city and yesterday, after two days of mysteries and speculation, he released an audio of 11 minutes on his Telegram channels, in which he said the reason for his rebellion was not his desire to overthrow President Vladimir Putin but rather to prevent the "destruction" of Wagner .

"I imagine - even if it's just a rumor - that Prigozhin is staying in one of the few hotels in Minsk that has no windows, perhaps to protect him from assassination attempts ," said US Senate Intelligence Committee head Mark Warner at Nbc.

Meanwhile, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko also confirmed that Prigozhin is in his country: «The security guarantees, as promised yesterday, have been provided. Prigozhin is in Belarus today.'

There are still many mysteries about what really happened and what the consequences will be. Meanwhile , the Moscow proceeding for armed insurrection against the militiamen has been closed . But the Defense has started procedures for the transfer of Wagner's heavy military equipment to Russian troops .

Prigozhin said that it was Lukashenko who mediated the truce, who offered a solution "for the continuation of Wagner's operations in a legitimate jurisdiction". Therefore, there is no explicit mention of Belarus. While Foreign Minister Serghei Lavrov has assured that the Wagner militiamen will be able to continue their activities at least in Mali and in the Central African Republic, without however naming Ukraine .

Yesterday evening Putin gave an ultimatum in an address to the nation: Wagner's soldiers, the Russian president said without ever mentioning Prigozhin, can enlist in Moscow's army or remain in Belarus without being prosecuted.

(Unioneonline/L)

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