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- Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin has been spotted at an international summit in Russia.
- The images come after he was supposedly exiled following the mutiny he staged against Russian military brass.
- Prigozhin was last seen in his underwear inside a field tent at a military camp in Belarus.
Newly-surfaced photographs show Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin schmoozing at an international summit in Russia — over a week since he was last seen in his underwear inside a field tent at a military camp in Belarus hundreds of miles away.
Prigozhin was apparently pictured at a Russia-Africa summit hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
Prigozhin led a short-lived mutiny against Russia's military leadership last month.
The images showing Prigozhin at the summit circulated on Wednesday after the founder of the Russian paramilitary group was supposedly cast into exile in Belarus as part of a peace deal with Putin following Wagner's aborted armed rebellion.
One photograph shows a smiling Prigozhin, wearing jeans and a white polo shirt, shaking hands with Freddy Mapouka, the chief of protocol for Central African Republic president Faustin-Archange Touadéra, according to the Financial Times.
The image was posted to Facebook by Dmitry Syty, the head of the "Russian House" in the capital of the Central African Republic.
"Mister Ambassador shared with me the first photos of the Russia-Africa Summit. We see some familiar faces," Syty captioned the image along with a smiling emoji.
Another image of Prigozhin wearing the same outfit also surfaced on social media showing him shaking hands with a different African official.
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Prigozhin's whereabouts have largely been shrouded in mystery ever since he mobilized the Wagner mercenary group against Russian military brass.
An image of Prigozhin in his underwear in a tent Belarus was recently circulated on social media.