Russian TV refutes Lukashenka: Prigozhin would not answer his calls

The head of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin did not want to negotiate with Aliaksandr Lukashenka. He rejected the calls. Then the Russian troops delivered several warning blows next to the Wagner columns marching on Moscow. And this was the only way they "persuaded" Prigozhin to pick up the phone and talk.

This version of the events of June 24, when the PMC Wagner headed for to Moscow with the "March of Justice", but turned back 200 km away from the city after negotiations with Lukashenka, was expressed by the Russian Z-propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov on the evening of July 1. And this version differs fundamentally from what Lukashenka himself said after these events.

Lukashenka said that the founder of PMC Wagner did not want to talk to Vladimir Putin - but immediately agreed to negotiate with Minsk. He immediately picked up the phone and after "half an hour of foul language" decided to stop the march, having received some security guarantees. Moreover, this (in general terms) was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

Now the propagandists have received manuals in which Putin is called the main character of the events. And Lukashenka is just a negotiator who is now seriously exaggerating his role.