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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko offered a disused military camp to Wagner fighters as part of a deal which ended the group’s armed rebellion against Russian military leaders last month. So far, not one mercenary has so much as been to look at the camp, an official said.
The Soviet-era site near Tsel, about 55 miles southeast of Minsk, was displayed by the Belarusian military to a group of international reporters on Friday. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his recruits who did not want to join up with the Russian Defense Ministry were supposed to move to Belarus after their mutiny unraveled—but the agreement has apparently gone awry.
When asked if anyone from Wagner had even visited the camp, an adviser to the Belarusian defense minister confirmed that they hadn’t. “They have not come, they have not looked,” Leonid Kasinsky told reporters, according to Reuters.