Wagner mercenaries to train Belarusian military, Lukashenko says

Wagner Group mercenaries will start coaching the Belarusian army, in response to the nation’s authorities.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko introduced Tuesday that the unstable mercenary group can be working to instruct the nation’s military on weaponry and techniques.

“They’ll inform us about weapons: which of them labored nicely, which of them didn’t,” Lukashenko mentioned, in response to translations from The Moscow Occasions.

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“And techniques, armaments — how one can assault, how one can defend,” he continued. “That is invaluable.”

Servicemen of the Wagner Group army firm sit of their army autos as they put together to go away an space on the headquarters of the Southern Navy District in a road in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (AP Photograph)

The announcement recontextualizes the Wagner mercenaries’ relationship with Russia and ally Belarus following a short-lived mutiny try in opposition to the Russian authorities final month.

Lukashenko was reported as a key peacemaker between the Kremlin and the Wagner Group via the ordeal.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the tried mutiny in opposition to the Kremlin final month, simply days after the march on Moscow was thwarted. 

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov mentioned Monday the meeting lasted some three hours on June 29, simply 5 days after the tried mutiny.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko enter the corridor throughout the Supreme Financial Eurasian Council on the Grand Kremlin Palace on Might 25, 2023, in Moscow. (Contributor/Getty Photos)

Peskov launched few particulars on the hours-long assembly however mentioned that Putin offered an “evaluation” of Wagner’s actions on the battlefield in addition to “the events of June 24.”

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“The commanders themselves offered their model of what occurred. They underscored that they’re staunch supporters and troopers of the pinnacle of state and the commander-in-chief, and in addition mentioned that they’re able to proceed to combat for his or her homeland,” the spokesman mentioned. 

Putin had spent the times following the mutiny by discrediting Prigozhin and claiming that the Russian individuals didn’t assist his mutinous takeover of Rostov-on-Don and subsequent march towards Moscow.

Fox Information’ Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.