The president of Belarus said Friday that he warned the late mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin twice that his life was likely in danger during and following the aborted uprising by his Wagner Group against the Russian government earlier this summer.
“The first time was when I phoned him and negotiations [were taking] place while they were marching on Moscow,” President Alexander Lukashenko told Belarusian state news agency Belta, as reported by CNN. “I told him, ‘Yevgeny, do you understand that you will doom your people and will perish yourself?’ He had just come back from the front. On an impulse, he said, ‘I will die then, damn it!'”
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Prigozhin is presumed dead following a plane crash outside Moscow on Wednesday that killed 10 people. He was listed as a passenger on the plane, and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to…
