Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko are not allies, exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told AFP. "At any moment, Lukashenko can betray Prigozhin or Prigozhin can betray Lukashenko. They are not allies. They cannot trust each other," she said on Wednesday. The head of the Wagner group traveled to Belarus on Tuesday as part of an agreement negotiated to put an end to his rebellion in Russia. But Tikhanovskaya believes that much remains unclear about the alleged deal. Lukashenko"s decision to help President Putin was an act of personal convenience to save his own regime, she added. "He did not act to save Putin"s face, nor to save Prigozhin, nor to prevent civil war breaking out in Russia," she maintained. "He only cared about his personal survival, because Lukashenko knows that if the factions in Russia clash, he will pay the price." "If Prigozhin and Wagner"s fighters were to flock to Belarus in large numbers, it could threaten Europe," she said. "This presence could pose a threat to Ukraine and our Western neighbors", added the opposition leader, whose husband is imprisoned in Belarus. She warned that Prigozhin could use Wagner"s forces to further suppress any dissent. "He is the person who has brought rapists and murderers to our land," she accused. Kramatorsk death toll climbs higher The death toll from Russian strikes that destroyed a restaurant in the Ukrainian town of Kramatorsk rose to twelve on Thursday morning, with around sixty people injured. In his daily address on Wednesday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the attack as "terrorist" and announced the arrest of an individual who had "coordinated" the Russian fire. In Kramatorsk on Thursday morning, where the Russian strikes also hit homes, shops, a post office and other buildings, rescue workers removed another body, according to Ukraine"s interior minister, bringing the death toll to twelve. Figures differ on the number of people injured in the attack, with the interior ministry saying 65 people were wounded, and local emergency services say 60. Three children are among the twelve dead, and one was injured. Eleven people were rescued. Ukrainian authorities say Russia fired two S-300 missiles — surface-to-air devices that it also uses for ground strikes — at Kramatorsk, which had a population of 150,000 before the war. Russia bans news outlet Russian authorities have declared a news outlet critical of the Kremlin an “undesirable” organisation, effectively banning it from operating in Russia as part of a continued crackdown on dissent. Novaya Gazeta Europe was founded by former journalists of the prominent independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta which was stripped of its media license last year. It operates from outside Russia. Prosecutor General"s office accused the outlet of “creating and disseminating materials to the detriment of the interests” of Russia - namely, “false information about alleged wide-spread violations of the rights and freedoms of citizens in Russia, accusations against our country of unleashing an aggressive war on Ukraine, of committing war crimes against civilian population, and of repressions.” Labeling the publication “undesirable" outlaws its operation in Russia and exposes its journalists, others working with it and its donors to criminal charges. In recent years, Russia has methodically targeted people and organizations critical of the Kremlin, branding many as “foreign agents” and declaring some “undesirable” under a 2015 law that made membership in “undesirable” organizations a criminal offense. Last week, Russian authorities slapped the label on the World Wide Fund for Nature and prominent rights group Agora. Earlier this year, the environmental pressure group Greenpeace was forced to close its Russian division after Moscow declared it to be an undesirable organization. A Belarusian opposition activist says that he has provided the International Criminal Court with materials allegedly detailing President Alexander Lukashenko"s involvement in the forcible transfer of Ukrainian children to Belarus, accusations angrily rejected by Minsk. Lukashenko has been Moscow"s closest ally, allowing the Kremlin to use Belarusian territory to send troops and weapons into Ukraine, welcoming a continued Russian military presence in Belarus and the deployment of some of Russia"s tactical nuclear weapons there. The authoritarian leader has also agreed to a “union state” project that has seen Moscow and Minsk tighten their economic, political and defense ties, while so far stopping short of a full merger. Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian culture minister, said Tuesday that the materials he has handed over to the ICC indicating that more than 2,100 Ukrainian children from at least 15 Russia-occupied Ukrainian cities have been forcibly taken to Belarus with Lukashenko"s approval. Latushka voiced hope that the materials would prompt the ICC to issue a warrant for Lukashenko’s arrest, as it did with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The court’s prosecution office on Wednesday didn’t confirm receipt of the materials described by Latushka. It said in a written statement that it is "duty bound to protect the confidentiality of the information received. Therefore, we usually do not comment on such communications.” In March, the ICC issued warrants for both Putin and his commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. Judges in The Hague said they found “reasonable grounds to believe” that the two were responsible for the war crimes of unlawful deportation of children and unlawful transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. Moscow has angrily rejected the move. — Euronews