Lukashenko Confirms Wagner Chief Prigozhin Is in Belarus
June 27, 2023
338,738
3,953
354
1.27%
Search the Record
IndexedEvery word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
Bloomberg News Episodes Around June 27, 2023
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
0:29Now PlayingLukashenko Confirms Wagner Chief Prigozhin Is in Belarus
YouTube Description
as posted by the channelBelarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed on Tuesday the arrival of the head of the Wagner Group in his country.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the private army of prison recruits and other mercenaries who have fought some of the deadliest battles in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, escaped prosecution for his abortive armed rebellion against the Kremlin and is in Belarus, Lukashenko said.
Appearing to address Prigozhin, the Belarusian president said his country would help the Wagner leader and some of his troops "if you want to stay with us for some time" at their own expense.
"Such a unit in the army wouldn't hurt," he added.
The exile of the 62-year-old owner of the Wagner Group was part of a deal that ended the short-lived mutiny in Russia.
Prigozhin has not been seen since Saturday, when he waved to well-wishers from a vehicle in the southern city of Rostov. He issued a defiant audio statement on Monday.
And on Tuesday morning, a private jet believed to belong to him flew from Rostov to an air base southwest of the Belarusian capital of Minsk, according to data from FlightRadar24.
--------
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Subscribe to Bloomberg Originals
Bloomberg Quicktake brings you global social video spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world.
Connect with us on…
Breaking News on YouTube
Guests & Subjects Covered
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.