MINSK—The mutinous head of Russia’s Wagner group is no longer in Belarus and it is not clear if his fighters will move there, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday.
Mr. Lukashenko said on June 27 that Yevgeny Prigozhin had arrived in Belarus as part of the deal that defused the crisis, which had seen the Wagner fighters briefly capture the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
But Mr. Lukashenko, who brokered the deal, said on Thursday that Mr. Prigozhin was now in St Petersburg, Russia’s second city, or may have moved on to Moscow.
“He is not on the territory of Belarus,” Mr. Lukashenko told a press conference in Minsk….