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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday he talked Russian President Vladimir Putin down from his threat to "wipe out" Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin not to "wipe out" Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin during Saturday's short-lived rebellion, which Putin had called "treason." Prigozhin marched an alleged 25,000 mercenaries nearly all the way to Moscow over the weekend, demanding the ouster of Russian military leadership before making an abrupt