Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said he warned Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin twice to watch out for threats to his life.
“The first time was when I phoned him and negotiations place while they were marching on Moscow,” Lukashenko told reporters in comments carried by Belarusian state news agency Belta on Friday. “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.
Russian authorities have yet to officially confirm Prigozhin’s death but have acknowledged the plane crash in public comments. The Pentagon has said it believes that Prigozhin was “likely” killed in the crash. US and Western intelligence officials that CNN spoke to believe the crash was deliberate but said it was still too early to determine what brought the plane down. Plenty of speculation remains and the future of the group is anyone’s guess.
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