With Prigozhin dead, Wagner fate in Belarus unsure
28 August 2023 |
2:50 pm
After staging a short-lived mutiny in Russia in June, Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner mercenaries were exiled to Belarus. With Prigozhin dead following a plane crash in Russia, will they be withdrawn?
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