A plane belonging to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group landed at a military airfield some 20 kilometers from Minsk, Belarus, on Tuesday morning, according to reports.
The plane “landed at the Machulishchi military airfield near Minsk at 07:40,” said the Belarusian Hajun project, which monitors the country’s airspace.
According to data from the flight tracking website flightradar24 shared by the Hajun project, the Embraer Legacy 600 jet took off from a southwestern Russian region bordering Ukraine.
Hajun added that another Russian private jet — which took off from St. Petersburg — had landed at the military airfield less than 20 minutes after the Wagner plane did.
Billionaire-turned-warlord Prigozhin resurfaced on Monday afternoon, posting an audio message to social media after going silent for two days following his aborted attempt to lead Wagner’s paramilitary troops to Moscow.
He has not been seen since leaving the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday evening. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow him to go into exile in Belarus and escape prosecution, under a deal negotiated by the country’s dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
