The president of Belarus said Friday that he warned the late mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin twice that his life was likely in danger during and following the aborted uprising by his Wagner Group against the Russian government earlier this summer.
"The first time was when I phoned him and negotiations [were taking] place while they were marching on Moscow," President Alexander Lukashenko told Belarusian state news agency Belta, as reported by CNN."I told him, 'Yevgeny, do you understand that you will doom your people and will perish yourself?' He had just come back from the front.
Lukashenko said the second time he spoke with Prigozhin, he warned him “in no uncertain terms to watch it.” He did not say when or where that second conversation took place. The Belarusian leader also dismissed the idea, already firmly held in most of the West, that Putin was behind the plane crash.
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