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There has been no confirmation of who was on board the plane. Under a deal mediated by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday to halt a mutiny by Prigozhin’s mercenary fighters, Prigozhin is meant to move to Belarus. The jet took off from an airfield in Rostov. ”The criminal case open over the armed uprising by the private military company Wagner has been closed,” the FSB said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.Ī Russian-registered Embraer Legacy 600, landed at the Machulishchi military airfield near Minsk at 07:40, the Belarusian Hajun project, an independent Belarusian military monitoring project, said. It came as Russia’s FSB security services announced that it was dropping a case against Wagner fighters accused of staging an armed mutiny to topple the country’s military leadership. President Vladimir Putin made a defiant address on Monday saying he had deliberately let the one-day mutiny go for so long to avoid bloodshed, while Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner leader, said yesterday that the mutiny was a “masterclass” in how to launch an invasion.Ī private jet belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group has landed at a military airfield in Belarus as the militia leader was expected to start his exile from Russia. Russia’s army is currently believed to be made up of just over a million men, with around two million reservists. “There are problems in the regular army, but PMCs cannot solve them.” “The country does not need any PMCs (private military companies) and their likes,” Mr Slutsky, the head of the Liberal Democratic Party, said on Telegram. Leonid Slutsky, who early in the 16-month war took part in peace negotiations with Ukraine, said that Russia needs a contract army of at least seven million military and civilian personnel, on top of the current conscript army. Russia must build an army of seven million men to ensure that no mercenary groups are needed for the country’s security, a top politician in the Kremlin has said, following an aborted mutiny by the Wagner group over the weekend.
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