Yevgeny Prigozhin agreed to relocate to Belarus after calling off his tried mutiny final month in a deal brokered by Mr Lukashenko.
Mr Lukashenko informed reporters on Thursday: “As for Prigozhin, he’s in St Petersburg. He is not on the territory of Belarus.”
The president of Belarus added that a proposal for Wagner to station a few of its fighters in Belarus nonetheless stands.
It is believed that there are some 25,000 inside the personal military after struggling sizeable losses in Ukraine.
Despite the settlement, Mr Lukashenko added: “As far as I am informed this morning, Wagner PMC fighters are in their camps.
“In permanent camps, where they were after their withdrawal from the front for recovery.”
Amid rising tensions over Russia’s faltering invasion, Wagner troops took the southern Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don in what Prigozhin referred to as a “march for justice”.
Forces then marched on Russia before an ultimatum was reached which resulted in Prigozhin and his troops agreeing to relocate to Belarus.
On Wednesday, pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia posted photos of Prigozhin’s St Petersburg palace following a raid by Russian safety companies.
Pictures confirmed a trove of weapons, ammunition, gold bars, a stuffed alligator and a cabinet filled with wigs on the grand residence.
Elsewhere, a framed photograph allegedly exhibiting the severed heads of his enemies was discovered in addition to enormous quantities of money in varied currencies.
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