Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday refuted Poland's claim that nearly 100 troops from Wagner mercenaries have moved to a thin strip of land between Poland and Lithuania
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, is presently in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko during a press conference with international media in Minsk, according to CNN.
"Amid the seriousness of the situation and the threat of escalation of confrontation in the Russian Federation the FSB has opened a criminal case into the fact of a call for an armed rebellion on the part of Yevgeny Prigozhin," it said.
"You will likely ask me why precisely President Lukashenko [became the mediator]? The thing is that Alexander Grigoryevich has known Prigozhin personally for a long time, about 20 years, and this was his personal initiative which was coordinated with President Putin," the Kremlin official
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has decided to stop his march to Moscow after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, reported Al Jazeera on Saturday.
Belarus 2020 presidential candidate Valery Tsepkalo in a Telegram post claimed that Lukashenko was in critical condition at the Central Clinical Hospital of Moscow.