Wagner won’t have recruitment offices in Belarus – Łukašenka

June 28, BPN. Alaksandr Łukašenka has said Belarus does not need Wagner Group’s recruitment offices, arguing that “those who want to serve there will find their way there.”

He was speaking at an epaulette ceremony for senior officers in Minsk yesterday.

Quoting Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the private army of mercenaries, he said one of Wagner Group’s leaders was a former Belarusian military man named Dzima.

“We will not be able to stop anyone who wants to make a lot of money there … But you must understand that every day you go to bed in an embrace with death, with a machine gun under your head,” he said.

Belarusian law prohibits citizens from fighting in foreign military conflicts.