A new base housing Wagner Group exiles in Belarus is less than 500 miles from the Russian capital.
"We began to be bothered by the PMC Wagner, asking to go to the West. 'Allow us?' I said, why do you want to go to the West there? And quietly, we're in control of what is happening: 'Well, we'll go on a tour to Warsaw and Rzeszow,'" Lukashenko said, referring to the Polish capital, Warsaw, and a key military hub for the country, Rzeszów.
However, Wagner may still pose a threat to Moscow, the U.S.-based think tank suggested, noting the apparent posturing by Lukashenko and Putin at their meeting this weekend in St. Petersburg.
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