Wagner Group to Continue Operations in Belarus, Despite Mutiny and Threats.

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the recent mutiny by the Wagner mercenary army, but said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's men were free to go to Belarus. Putin's statement appeared to lift the threat of legal retribution against Prigozhin, but left questions open as to his authority as Russia's 16-month-old war on Ukraine saps its military and economic power. Prigozhin defended his troops as a crack force and said that Belarus was offering ways for his mercenary group's "continued work."