MINSK: Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia and none of the private mercenary group's fighters have set up in Belarus, its leader said on Thursday, casting doubt on a Kremlin deal to end their insurrection.

"As far as Prigozhin is concerned, he is in St. Petersburg ... He is not in Belarus," President Alexander Lukashenko told reporters from foreign media outlets.

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