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Belarus leader says he talked Prigozhin back from brink

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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday (Jun 27) that he had convinced Yevgeny Prigozhin in an emotional, expletive-laden phone call to end a mutiny by his Wagner militia

Under a deal brokered by Lukashenko, an old friend, Prigozhin abandoned what a"march for justice" by thousands of his men on Moscow in exchange forHis men - who have spearheaded much of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine - were also pardoned and have been given the choice of joining Prigozhin in Belarus, being integrated into Russia's security forces, or simply going home.

Lukashenko, recounting his role in Saturday's drama to Belarusian officers and officials, hailed Prigozhin as a"heroic guy" who had been shaken by the deaths of many of his men in Ukraine. "He was pressured and influenced by those who led the assault squads and saw these deaths," Lukashenko said, adding that Prigozhin had arrived in the southern Russian city of Rostov from Ukraine in a"semi-mad state".

 

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