Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Wagner Group mercenaries in the country have started “stressing him” because they want to “go west” on “an excursion”.
“Maybe I shouldn’t have said this, but I will. Wagner’s mercenaries started to stress us out. ‘We want to go West. Let’s go’, they tell us,” Lukashenko told Putin during a meeting in St. Petersburg this Sunday (23).
“Why do you need to go to the West? ‘Well, to take an excursion to Warsaw, to Rzeszow [na Polônia]’” Lukashenko said. “I keep them in the center, as agreed, of Belarus.”
Lukashenko is an ally of Putin and was apparently toying with him. A video showed Putin smiling at the comments.
Private military group Wagner has been in Belarus since Lukashenko helped broker a deal to end the group’s short-lived rebellion against Moscow. Ukraine says about 5,000 fighters are in the country.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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