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Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said about 33 Wagner PMC militants were known to enter the republic thanks to the message from the bus driver they were traveling in.
Belarus apologized to the Russians detained in late July, members of Wagner’s PMC. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko’s son Viktor asked for forgiveness. This was announced on September 8 by the President of Belarus during a meeting with Russian journalists, says the radio “Moscow Speaks.”
According to Lukashenko, the driver of the bus they were traveling on reported 33 Russians arriving in Belarus. He pointed out that he was just a vigilante citizen and not an employee of the special services. The order to arrest suspects came after Belarus KGB chief Valery Vakulchik admitted that he could not control their movements across the country.
Later, Lukashenka sent his son Viktor, who works as his national security adviser and is a member of the Belarusian National Security Council, to apologize to the Wagnerists and ask where they want to go.
Furthermore, the Belarusian president stressed that the Russians would not be extradited to Ukraine.
On July 29, the Belarusian authorities announced the arrest of 33 Russians who were in a private military company. The Belarusian Security Council announced that a criminal case was opened against those detained under the article on the preparation of terrorist acts, later it was reported that they were suspected of preparing mass riots.
In an interview with GORDON newspaper founder Dmitry Gordon, which aired on August 6, Lukashenko said he would hand over the detained militants to Ukraine if Kiev proves their involvement in the Donbas crimes. Lukashenka ordered to invite the attorneys general of Russia and Ukraine to the country to investigate the situation with the detained militants. On August 9, he said that since the prosecutors did not come to Minsk, it means that they “don’t care about these guys.”
On August 12, the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine approached the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus with requests for the extradition of 28 Wagnerites (nine of them were citizens of Ukraine), who actively participated in hostilities on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions as part of the “LPR” and “DPR” terrorist organizations …
On August 14 it emerged that the Belarusian authorities had extradited the arrested Wagnerites to Russia. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy considered this to be a hostile move by Belarus. In his opinion, the consequences of the release of the mercenaries “will be tragic”.
Editor-in-chief of the Internet edition “Censor.NET” Yuri Butusov August 18th stated that the trip of the Wagner PMC fighters to Belarus was part of a special operation by the SBU and the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine: land a plane with mercenaries in Ukraine and then stop them. According to Butusov, The special operation failed due to the decision of the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Yermak and Zelensky, to postpone the departure of the militants from Minsk, as well as due to the leakage of information from Ukraine.
On August 24, the journalist Lyubov Velichko published in the Mind edition an interview with the “supervisor of the special operation” and copies of documents that, according to her, prove the reality of the special operation.
The head of the Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, said that Wagner’s PMC fighters were transferred to Minsk by Russian special services and that this was not a special operation of the SBU.
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