CNN: Prigozhin Is in Russia and Not in Jail

RUSH EXCERPT:

CHANCE: “Very surprised. In fact, I was half expecting yevgeny prigozhin, the wagner leader, to be at the press conference with Alexander Lukashenko. It’s one of the reasons, you know, we came. But obviously that didn’t happen. We got this extraordinary revelation that prigozhin is not in Belarus, nor are any wagner fighters, but they are elsewhere. They are in Russia. And none of us, none of the journalists that had gathered here in minsk were expecting that. Now, lukashenko says that prigozhin is a free man in Russia. He’s not in jail. He raised the possibility of an assassination of prigozhin by the Kremlin but quickly dismissed that as being not something that Putin would consider although I think that the fact that he raised it is a possibility, you know, indicates how precarious the position is at the moment of the wagner leader. He also said that wagner fighters, who were also invited to come and sort of operate out of Belarus, were not coming either, or they hadn’t come so far. And I sort of got the sense that possibly this was, you know, a blessing in disguise for Belarus. Take a listen to that line of questioning.”