Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Wagner’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has arrived in Belarus following an agreement with President Vladimir Putin that he could escape the heat in Russia. It comes after Prigozhin led his Wagner mercenary fighters in an attempted mutiny over the weekend that took them from the battlefields of Ukraine to 200km south of Moscow. Lukashenko, who negotiated the deal to call things off, says Wagner fighters have also been offered the opportunity to join Prigozhin in Belarus. And while Belarus has rolled out the red carpet, neighbouring Poland, Latvia and Lithuania – all members of the NATO military alliance – have concerns… Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said Wagner’s troops were “serial killers” that could cause an “even greater danger of instability” in the region.

So much has unfolded in Russia, so we have not one but 2 new Shortcuts on Wagner’s mutiny in Russia and a backgrounder to Yevgeny Prigozhin.