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Eugene

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Wed Jul 19, 2023, 07:30 PM Jul 2023

Prigozhin resurfaces in Belarus, tells Wagner fighters they have the 'biggest job in the world comin

Source: Business Insider

Prigozhin resurfaces in Belarus, tells Wagner fighters they have the 'biggest job in the world coming up'

Charles R. Davis
Wed, July 19, 2023 at 11:14 AM EDT

• Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin shared a video Wednesday that appears to show him in Belarus.
• Prigozhin told the assembled mercenaries to prepare for future deployments.
• "It's not the end, it's just the beginning," he assured them.

Yevgeny Prigozhin appears to be back in Belarus. The boss of the famed Wagner mercenary group posted a video on Wednesday — seemingly from the group's new base camp in exile — in which he promises his fighters that more deployments are coming.

But maybe not in Ukraine, at least anytime soon.

"Right now, what is happening on the front is a disgrace that we don't need to get involved with," Prigozhin said in the nearly six-minute video, shared on his personal Telegram channel. Instead, Wagner forces will "stay here in Belarus for some time," Prigozhin said in the darkly lit video, tents visible in the background, where the men will defend the country "in the event that it becomes necessary."

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Prigozhin resurfaces in Belarus, tells Wagner fighters they have the 'biggest job in the world comin (Original Post) Eugene Jul 2023 OP
It cannot be the beginning. Just plain stupid. GreenWave Jul 2023 #1
NonState armed militias for hire, or for male military bonding fun, must be criminalized. Alexander Of Assyria Jul 2023 #2
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