Prigozhin in Belarus: Lukashenko ‘wants Wagner as his private guard’ as mercenary boss plots future

Jonathan Eyal, at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), suggested Mr Lukashenko could use Wagner fighters to crush opposition to his regime in Belarus. “It could become a sort of personal guard of Lukashenko to be used to crack down on anything else, especially if the security services of Belarus become unreliable,” he said.