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‘They will squash you like a bug’: Lukashenko claims credit for stopping Russian rebels

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he spoke to Wagner chief Yevgeny Prighozin, persuading him to halt the mutinous march on Moscow. He also suggested he advised Russian President Vladimir Putin not to imprison or kill Prigozhin, adding that his own military commanders had much to learn from the Wagner group about battlefield tactics.