Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end an armed mutiny in Russia, said that Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was no longer in Belarus.

“As for Prigozhin, he’s in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus,” Lukashenko said.

Earlier, Lukashenko said on June 27 that Prigozhin had arrived in Belarus as part of the deal.