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    Flying Russian Flags, More Wagner Troops Roll into Belarus as Part of Deal that Ended Their Mutiny

    Flying Russian Flags, More Wagner Troops Roll into Belarus as Part of Deal that Ended Their Mutiny

    More mercenaries from Russia's Wagner military contractor rolled into Monday, a monitoring group said, continuing their relocation to the ex-Soviet nation following last month's short-lived mutiny.

    Belaruski Hajun, a Belarusian activist group that monitors troops movements in Belarus, said that a convoy of about 20 vehicles carrying Russian flags and Wagner insignia entered the country Monday heading toward a field that Belarusian authorities had offered to the company.

    The group said it was a third Wagner convoy entering the country since last week.

    Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who brokered a deal that ended last month's rebellion launched by Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said that his country's military could benefit from the mercenaries' combat experience.

    On Friday, Belarusian state TV broadcast video of Wagner instructors training Belarusian territorial defense forces at a firing range in the Asipovichy region, where a camp offered to Wagne r is located.

    A Belarusian messaging app channel alleged last week that Prigozhin spent a night at the camp near Tsel, about 90 kilometers (about 55 miles) southeast of Minsk, and posted a of him in a tent.

    In the revolt that started on June 23 and lasted less than 24 hours, Prigozhin's mercenaries quickly swept through the southern Russian of Rostov-on-Don and captured the military headquarters there without firing a shot, before…

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