President Vladimir Putin has said for the first time that the Wagner mercenary group is fully backed by the state.
He said it cost his nation a billion dollars last year.
Russia’s president congratulated his forces and hailed their efforts to stop what he called a “civil war”.
The head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has landed in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.
Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reports.
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