Mercenaries from the “Wagner” PMC have begun training Belarusian soldiers, the Ministry of Defense in Minsk announced on Friday, releasing a video report about it, Reuters reports.

The Ministry of Defense of Belarus has released footage it claims shows Wagner’s mercenaries training the country’s military at a training ground near the town of Osypovychi, 90 kilometers southeast of Minsk.

“Fighters of the “Wagner” PMK acted as instructors in a number of military disciplines,” the Belarusian agency reported.

Alexander Lukashenko’s office announced on the evening of June 24 that he had brokered an agreement between the Kremlin and Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Wagner’s mercenaries, to end the rebellion he had started the night before.

The Belarusian dictator later said that Wagner’s mercenaries could be given a decommissioned military base to set up a center in his country, but that plan remained in the air after he also announced on July 6 that Prigozhin was no longer in Belarus, but in St. Petersburg. .

Wagner’s mercenary boss is said to be in Moscow after a failed uprising

Earlier on June 27, Lukashenko confirmed that the head of Wagner’s group had arrived in his country as part of an agreement he brokered to end the rebellion. Prigozhin has not appeared in public since the evening of June 24, when he left the city of Rostov-on-Don, where the coordination center for the mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC was established.

Later, the French publication Liberation wrote, citing sources in Western intelligence, that Prigozhin would not be in St. Petersburg, but in Moscow, where the Kremlin would detain him. This was later confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov, but without mentioning the fact that the head of the Wagner group was detained by force.

“The only thing that can be said is that the president gave an assessment of the actions of the PMK (Wagner) at the front during the special operation (in Ukraine), and also gave an assessment of the events of June 24 (the day of the uprising),” he told reporters on July 10. adding that Prigozhin participated in the meeting with Putin.

“The commanders presented their version of what happened (on June 24). They emphasized that they are loyal supporters and soldiers of the current Head of State and Commander-in-Chief. They also said that they are ready to continue fighting for the Motherland,” Peskov said at the time.

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