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Leaders in some European countries neighboring Belarus have raised security concerns as the founder of the Wagner mercenary group is believed to have arrived in Belarus after aborting his mutiny in Russia.A state-run news agency in Belarus reported Tuesday that President Alexander Lukashenko had revealed Yevgeny Prigozhin is in the country.Lukashenko also reportedly said he has offered Wagner fighters the use of an abandoned base in his country[Emphasis added]. A Russian independent media outlet said new camps for Wagner troops are being built in Belarus.

Highlights: In Belarus, camps for mercenaries PMC Wagner are being built, relatives say that militants are sent to Belarus. The camp is designed for 8,000 fighters and will be located 200 km from the border with Ukraine. A source close to the leadership of the Mogilev region confirmed that the authorities have orders to build a camp for Wagner in the region. The British General Staff warned that after Prigozhin's departure to Belarus, the "Wagnerites" could prepare an offensive against Kyiv.. . . So, about one of the relatives, citing her friend, said that the remaining Wagner units in Rostov-on-Don...

Pro-Kremlin media technologist Konstantin Dolgov said he was fired from the Cart ONLINE propaganda project after an interview with Wagner PMC owner Yevgeny Prigozhin. He wrote about this in his telegram channel. In that interview, the businessman criticized the Russian military leadership, including Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Prigozhin said that the Russian authorities, instead of the goal of demilitarizing Ukraine declared in February 2022, achieved the opposite effect, and the Ukrainian army became one of the strongest in the world. He also stated that during the entire war in Ukraine, 20,000 mercenaries of the Wagner PMC were killed, half of...

Car bombs used to be a fixture of gangland feuds in 1990s Russia but have since fallen out of fashion. This makes it all the more striking when, as happened last night, such a device rips through a car just outside Moscow, killing Darya Dugina, daughter of the controversial nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin. She was a prominent figure in her own right, a journalist working for an outfit Washington says is owned by Russian businessman Evgeny Prigozhin – under sanctions in the West for being the godfather of both the Wagner mercenary group and the infamous social media ‘troll farms’...

Successful assassination attempt in Moscow: a car blown up on Mozhayskoye highway. A female driver died on the spot. According to yet unconfirmed news it could be Darya Dugina, the daughter of Alexander Dugin