Plane belonging Russian mercenary chief lands in Belarus.
A plane belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary leader who shook President Vladimir Putin’s government by leading an armed revolt on Saturday, arrived in Belarus Tuesday, according to a flight-tracking website. It was not immediately known if Prigozhin was on the flight.
Meanwhile, Russian authorities closed a criminal investigation into the armed rebellion, with no charges against Prigozhin or any of the other participants, The Associated Press reported.
The head of Wagner Group’s whereabouts have been a mystery since he struck a deal with Putin’s government that allegedly allowed him to go to neighboring Belarus in exchange for standing down rebel forces as they marched on Moscow.
Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 showed that an Embraer Legacy 600 jet with the serial number RA02795 took off from Rostov-on-Don.
The aircraft has landed at Machulyshchi military airfield near Minsk.
The business jet of Yevgeny Prigozhin landed at the Machulishchi military airfield near Minsk, monitoring channels report
The plane landed less than half an hour ago, at 7:40 am . In addition, another business jet from St. Petersburg landed in Machulishchi. pic.twitter.com/auVEQidUOn
— M e d i a s e t * S * (@MediasetS1) June 27, 2023
Another business jet from St. Petersburg landed in Machulishchi.