The Kremlin said Mr Prigozhin would travel to neighboring Belarus under an agreement announced on the night of June 24 (local time).
However, information from the independent monitoring group Belaruski Hajun (specializing in tracking Russian military equipment to Belarus) said that based on data from the Flight Radar 24 website, the Embraer Legacy 600 commercial aircraft with registration number RA-02795, believed to be Mr. Prigozhin's, landed at Machulishchy airbase, near the Belarusian capital Minsk, at around 7:40 a.m. on June 27 (local time).
According to flight tracking website Flight Radar 24, the plane departed from an unknown location near Rostov-on-Don, circled over Ukraine through Russian airspace, before landing in Minsk.
According to the flight tracking website Flight Radar 24, the Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft with registration number RA-02795, believed to be belonging to Mr. Prigozhin, arrived in Minsk on the morning of June 27. Photo: Flight Radar 24
At around 7:58 a.m. the same day, another BAE 125-800B commercial aircraft with registration number RA-02878 departing from St. Petersburg - Russia also landed at this base. It is unclear who this aircraft belongs to.
According to the Daily Mail , it is reported that Mr. Prigozhin's plane has traveled between St. Petersburg (where Wagner's headquarters is located) and an area near Rostov-on-Don twice since the uprising on June 24, before flying to Minsk early in the morning of June 27.
Prigozhin's media team did not respond to a request for comment from the Associated Press on whether he was on the June 27 plane bound for Belarus under an agreement reached with Moscow.
Head of the Wagner private military company Yevgeny Prigozhin in Rostov-on-Don on June 24. Photo: Telegram
Previously, Russia's Pravda newspaper reported that on June 25, the Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft with registration number RA-02795 took off from St. Petersburg and turned off its transponder (identification system) when approaching Russia's Rostov province, bordering Ukraine.
At about 6 p.m. the same day, the plane reappeared on radar in the Tambov area, returning to St. Petersburg at 7 p.m.
Mr. Prigozhin has not appeared in public since the evening of June 24 after announcing an agreement with the Russian government to stop the advance on the capital Moscow and withdraw forces from occupied bases in Rostov-on-Don.
On June 24, Prigozhin said he would travel to Belarus under an agreement brokered by President Alexander Lukashenko.
On June 26, in his first public comments since the uprising, Mr. Prigozhin said that President Alexander Lukashenko had asked Wagner to operate within the legal framework but did not elaborate.
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