General Lord Richard Dannatt, the former Chief of General Staff in the British Army, believes Ukraine should “watch its northern border with Belarus” carefully following Prigozhin’s deal with Russian president Vladimir Putin DavidParsley50 reports
The deal was apparently struck in return for Prigozhin and his troops avoiding criminal charges from the Kremlin after what appeared to be anAs part of the deal to end Wagner’s advance on the Kremlin, which was brokered by Belarusian President and Kremlin allyWagner mercenaries on the street in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia
“He’s gone to Belarus and this is, I think, a matter of some concern now,” Dannatt told Sky News. “What we don’t know, and what we will discover in the next hours and days, is how many of his fighters have actually gone with him.At the outset of the war on 24 February last year, Russian forces got with a few miles of the Ukrainian capital but were thwarted on the outskirts of the city by Ukrainian troops.
Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko helped broker the deal with Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin to bring a halt to his march on Moscow, just 125 miles from the Kremlin The Belarusian border is less than 100 miles from Kyiv and Dannatt suggested Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will need to reinforce his forces in the north in the event of any attack led by Prigozhin.
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