Ukraine war latest news today live: Exiled Wagner boss Prigozhin ‘back in Russia weeks after failed mutiny’

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who final month brokered a deal to finish an armed mutiny in Russia, stated on Thursday that Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was now not in Belarus.

Lukashenko stated on 27 June that Prigozhin had arrived in Belarus as a part of the deal.

But he advised reporters on Thursday: “As for Prigozhin, he’s in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus.”

In raiding Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s St Petersburg palace, Putin’s armed officers have allegedly discovered a closet containing wigs, an alligator and {a photograph} depicting the severed heads of his enemies, MailOnline stories.

Yesterday, pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia confirmed that Putin’s forces have been conducting a search of the mansion while Prigozhin remained in Belarus.

However, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has since famous that the Wagner chief is now again in St Petersburg.

The president of Belarus says Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained on the camps they stayed in earlier than an tried mutiny towards Moscow.

President Alexander Lukashenko helped dealer a deal underneath which Prigozhin ended his abortive mutiny on 24 June in trade for safety ensures for himself and his troopers. The deal allowed Prigozhin and his troops to maneuver to Belarus.

Lukashenko stated final week that Prigozhin was in Belarus. He advised worldwide reporters Thursday that the mercenary chief is in St. Petersburg and Wagner troops nonetheless have been at their camps.

On Monday (26 June), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky praised Ukrainian troops for advancing “in all sectors”, having spent the day presenting awards to front-line troopers in the east and south.

“Today in all sectors, our soldiers made advances. It is a happy day,” Mr Zelensky stated in his nightly video deal with, which was delivered from a prepare after visiting two frontline areas.

Ukraine has fought again courageously towards Mr Putin’s warped bid to revive territory misplaced to Moscow with the collapse of the Soviet Union and has continued to defy the percentages by defending itself towards Russian onslaughts with the assistance of Western army help.

A Russian missile strike killed at the least 4 individuals in Lviv on Thursday in the most important assault on the western Ukrainian metropolis’s civilian infrastructure since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian officers stated.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy posted a one-minute video on-line displaying buildings with elements of the roof and higher flooring destroyed, home windows smashed and rescuers looking by the particles for survivors. He stated there could be a response.

“Unfortunately, there are wounded and dead. My condolences to the families,” Zelenskiy stated on the Telegram messaging app.

“There definitely will be a response to the enemy. It will be a noticeable one.”

Devastating drone footage reveals the aftermath of a Russian missile assault on Lviv which has killed at the least 4 individuals.

Around 9 others have been injured in an in a single day assault, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko stated today.

Approximately 60 flats and 50 vehicles in the world of the strike have been broken, Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi stated.

Drone video posted by Volodymyr Zelensky reveals broken buildings considered from above, with third and fourth flooring of a constructing ruined.

Emergency companies have been trying to find individuals trapped in the particles in town which has seen a whole lot of 1000’s of Ukrainian war refugees flee to from different areas to the east.

Volodymyr Zelensky stated he wished a counteroffensive to have began earlier and had urged Western allies to provides weapons for that to occur, in line with excerpts through a translator in an interview to CNN.

“I’m grateful to the US as the leaders of our support but I told them as well as the European leaders that we would like to start our counteroffensive earlier, and we need all the weapons and materiel for that,” he was quoted as saying.

“Why? Simply because if we start later, it will go slower.”

Both Russian and Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions which have killed Ukrainian civilians, Human Rights Watch stated in a report today.

The worldwide advocacy group has referred to as on each Russia and Ukraine to cease utilizing the weapons, and urged the US to not provide them.

Ukraine fired cluster munition rockets into Russian-controlled areas in and across the japanese Ukrainian metropolis of Izium final yr after Russia invaded Ukraine, Human Rights Watch stated, citing interviews with greater than 100 residents, witnesses and native emergency personnel.

The Ukrainian assaults killed at the least eight civilians and wounded at the least 15 civilians in Izium, Human Rights Watch stated.

The group has beforehand reported that Russia’s use of cluster munitions in Ukraine has killed scores of civilians, and the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has additionally documented the usage of such bombs by each side.

More than 120 nations have signed on to a world treaty banning the weapons, which usually scatter numerous smaller so-called bomblets over a big space that may kill or maim unwary civilians months or years later.

Russia, Ukraine and the US have all to declined to signal the treaty.

Volodymyr Zelensky has stated Ukraine will serve a “strong” response to Russia for its in a single day assault on Lviv which killed 4 individuals.

“Lviv. Consequences of the night attack by Russian terrorists. Unfortunately, there are wounded and dead. My condolences to the relatives! There will definitely be a response to the enemy. A strong one,” he stated this morning.