There is great excitement about the whereabouts of Wagner chief Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin. He was promised exile in Belarus. But Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko recently claimed that Prigozhin was in St. Petersburg, Russia. On Friday, a photo of the controversial Wagner boss started to spread on Russian and Ukrainian channels. Several claim this may be the last picture taken by the controversial Russian: Photo: Telegram In the picture we see an apparently vulnerable Prigozhin greeting the camera. The multi-billionaire is here in simple conditions, inside a tent. The picture is neither location nor time verified by news. The picture has been published on several channels both on Twitter, Telegram and VKsignal. The Telegram channel Reverse side of the Medal, which has links to the Wagner group, claims the photo was taken just two days ago, at 7.24am on 12 July. While Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, writes that it was allegedly taken inside a tent in Belarus. And on Friday, the government in Minsk states that the Wagner Group is training Belarusian soldiers. According to Minsk, the training takes place in Asipovichy, 90 kilometers south of the capital. Prigozhin rejected Putin’s offer On Friday, the Russian newspaper Kommersant published a lengthy interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the interview, Putin says that several of Wagner’s top managers are positive about serving as a department under the regular Russian army. But Putin says at the same time that Prigozhin refused the same offer, and that “the men do not agree with this choice” – Not in Belarus At the beginning of July, Belarus’ President Aleksandr Lukashenko claimed that Prigozhin had returned to St. Petersburg. It was the Belarusian president who last month is said to have put an agreement in place between the Russian authorities and Prigozhin. An agreement that would ensure the freedom of it – Putin will not “remove” Prigozhin, Lukashenko claimed. At the same time, the Russian-owned TV channel Russland-1 has come out hard against the Wagner boss. During a Russian television program, Prigozhin was called a traitor and viewers were told that the rebellion was under investigation. Received amnesty in Belarus Last month, Prigozhin was behind an armed uprising against the military leadership in Moscow. The forces moved violently from the front line in eastern Ukraine towards Moscow, before suddenly turning around. Lukashenko, Russia’s and Vladimir Putin’s closest ally, is said to have put in place an agreement that granted Prigozhin amnesty in Belarus. One of the conditions was that he went into exile in Belarus. Since the uprising, Prigozhin has kept a low profile. Apart from an audio message, he has not made any statements. – If Prigozhin has gone from Belarus to St. Petersburg, it may mean that he is not overly concerned about his own safety, says Tormod Heier, who is professor of military strategy and operations at the Norwegian Armed Forces College.
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