. The deal, brokered by the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, came after Prigozhin’s forces took control of Russia’s Southern Military Command on Saturday and were streaming toward Moscow. According to Flightradar24, Prigozhin’s $10 million Embraer Legacy 600 business jet arrived in Minsk at 7:40 a.m.
local time from an airfield near Rostov-on-Don. Another jet arrived from Prigozhin’s hometown of St. Petersburg 18 minutes later, thereported. Lukashenko has been in power in the former Soviet state since 1994, making him Europe’s longest-serving leader, and opposition activists in Belarus fear Prigozhin and his mercenaries could