
Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenko said on Friday that he had warned the Russian mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, to be careful that they could face threats to their lives.
Prigozhin is believed to have died in a private plane crash north of Moscow on August 23, about two months after leading a failed uprising against Moscow with his mercenary group, Wagner.
Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, had initially vowed to crush Prigozhin's uprising in June, but hours later a deal was reached to allow Prigozhin and some of his troops into Belarus.
Lukashenko, who brokered the deal, used prison jargon shortly after Wagner's short-lived uprising when he said he had persuaded Putin not to "get rid of" the mercenary who was on the passenger list of the private jet that crashed on Wednesday north of Moscow.
Prigozhin, Lukashenko said on Friday, had twice dismissed concerns raised by him about possible threats to his life.
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