Russian mercenary chief Prigozhin arrives in Belarus

This video grab taken from handout footage posted May 25, 2023, on the Telegram account of the press service of Concord - a company linked to Russian mercenary Wagner group, shows Yevgeny Prigozhin speaking from Bakhmut.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group, has arrived in Belarus after staging a short-lived, aborted mutiny last weekend against Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership over the fight against Ukraine, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday.

It was not immediately clear where Prigozhin was in Belarus, how many fighters had accompanied him or how long he planned to stay there. Lukashenko, an ally of Putin, last Saturday negotiated Prigozhin's departure for Belarus after Prigozhin led thousands of his fighters out of Ukraine on a caravan toward Moscow before calling off the advance well short of confronting Russian soldiers on the outskirts of the capital city.