Alexander Lukashenko

Day 506 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

The Kremlin said Monday that President Vladimir Putin had met with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 29 in the Kremlin, days after the mercenary group attempted to topple Russia's military leadership.

According to the Kremlin, Putin and Prigozhin met on June 29, five days after the rebellion ended.
As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained, 35 people attended the meeting.
"All the commanders were invited, including Prigozhin himself. This meeting was held in the Kremlin on June 29. It lasted almost three hours," Peskov said without giving details of the meeting.

Day 502 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

The mercenary leader who led a short-lived mutiny against the Kremlin is in Russia and his troops are in their field camps, the president of Belarus said Thursday, raising new questions about the deal that ended the extraordinary challenge to President Vladimir Putin's rule.

"This is a Russian company. So, the question is obviously not for me. As far as I am informed, the fighters are in their camps. As for Prigozhin, he is in St. Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus," Lukashenko said.

The Washington Post reports, citing a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity, that US intelligence agencies discovered in mid-June that Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning some sort of armed attack, but that information was not discussed in meetings with Ukrainian officials, President Volodymyr Zelensky and others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday ordered security to be beefed up at his country's border with Belarus, where fighters from the Russian paramilitary group Wagner have been offered exile.

Day 489 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Day 487 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours: