Lukashenko at a meeting with Belarusian Defense Minister Khrenin:

Now there is a lot of talk and chatter: Wagner, Wagner, Wagner. People do not understand that we are also pragmatic about this.

If their commanders come to us and help us ... Experience. Listen, they are on the front lines - assault detachments. They will tell us what is important now. Putin told me for the last time: counter-battery combat is impossible without it. Drones. They went through this.

They will tell you about weapons: which worked well, which did not. And tactics, and weapons, and how to attack, how to defend. It's priceless. This is what we need to take from the Wagnerites.

There is nothing to be afraid of them. We keep our ears open.

Putin:

The content of the Wagner group was fully provided by the state , from May 2022 to May 2023, 86 billion rubles ($ 1 billion) were spent on the maintenance of Wagner.

Putin:

Since the start of the counteroffensive, Kyiv has lost 259 tanks and 780 armored vehicles.

Putin:

Over the year, through Voentorg, supplying food, Concord (Prigozhin) earned 80 billion rubles ($ 940 million).

Lukashenko said that in Belarus, a whole brigade of security forces was ready to be transferred to Russia if the need arose.

Putin on Prigozhin:

I hope that no one stole anything or stole less, but we will deal with it all.

Lukashenko spoke about the proposal to Putin not to rush into a cruel decision:

The most dangerous thing, as I understand it, is not what it was, the situation, but how it could develop and its consequences. That was the most dangerous. I suggested Putin not to rush.

Let's talk with Prigozhin, with his commanders.

To which he told me: “Listen, Sasha, it's useless. He doesn't even pick up the phone, he doesn't want to talk to anyone .”

Lukashenko tells how he managed to reach Prigozhin:

I asked: “Where is he?” - “In Rostov”.

I say: “Good. A bad peace is better than any war. Do not rush. I'll try to contact him.”

He (Putin) once again says: "It's useless."

I say: "Okay, wait."

Somewhere we talked for probably half an hour.

At 11 o'clock... I should have found these phones too... I say: "How can I contact him? Give me the phone."

He says: “Most likely, the FSB has a telephone.”

By the middle of the day, we had as many as three channels through which we can talk with Rostov.

Lukashenka says he knows how Shoigu works and believes that he is sometimes undeservedly criticized.

Ukrainian artillery strike destroys Russian Buk air defence system in Zaporizhzhia region.

Lukashenko:

Prigozhin arrived in Belarus.

Lukashenko says such a unit as Wagner PMC will not hurt the Belarusian army.

Lukashenko said that a significant part of nuclear weapons had already been brought to Belarus:

The Poles and others believe that Wagner will guard nuclear weapons, and so on. Wagner will not guard any nuclear weapons.

Lukashenko says in the course of negotiations with him, Prigozhin abandoned his demands, including the resignation of Shoigu.

Meanwhile, Shoigu received the Minister of Defense of Cuba in Moscow today.

Russia’s Wagner PMC, which has gained influence thanks to Putin & revolted against him in Russia on June 24, is in armed control of as many as 15 countries in Africa; exploiting their resources.

Chinese-made 152mm Type 66 HE projectile used by Russian artillery unit with D-20 howitzer.

Arab sources claim Wagner PMC forces in Syria are getting arrested by the forces of the Russian army and the Syrian special services.

U.S. allocates new $500 million aid package to Ukraine that includes munitions for HIMARS and Patriot systems.

Also includes 30 x Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 25 x Stryker armored personnel carriers, artillery shells and spare parts.

And here is a photo of the shell boxes.

Judging by the characteristic markings on the boxes, they are of Iranian origin .

Claim: Chinese 152mm projectile was once delivered to Iran, where it lay for a long time, and then was equipped with a fresher Iranian-made charge & sent 🇷🇺

Ukrainian President Zelensky fired the general director of Ukroboronprom.