"I say: 'Halfway you'll just be crushed like a bug'," Mr Lukashenko replied. Mr Lukashenko said Prigozhin had told him: "'But we want justice! They want to strangle us! We're going to Moscow!'" He said the calls contained "10 times" as many obscenities as normal language - which seems to tally with comments from Belarusian government propagandist Vadim Gigin, who yesterday said the pair had "immediately blurted out such vulgar things it would make any mother cry". Mr Lukashenko said he spent hours on the phone reasoning with Prigozhin after the Wagner group seized Rostov and began heading towards Moscow. "He was pressured and influenced by those who led the assault squads and saw these deaths," Mr Lukashenko said, adding that the mercenary group boss had arrived in Russia's Rostov in a "semi-mad state". In his latest comments, Mr Lukashenko said Prigozhin was a "heroic guy" who had been shaken by the deaths of many of his men in Ukraine. The Belarusian president has offered more details on what was said to be his mutiny-ending phone call with Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.Īlexander Lukashenko has been credited with helping to broker a deal that stopped last week's rebellion in its tracks - and Belarusian state media had described how Vladimir Putin called him asking for help.
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