Mercenaries’ safety guaranteed and leader Yevgeny Prigozhin will move to Belarus, according to deal
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid the group’s pullout from Rostov-on-Don in Russia, June 24 2023. Picture: ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/REUTERSChina supports Russia in maintaining its national stability, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Sunday, a day after an aborted mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group.
Fighters of the Wagner group returned to their bases in return for guarantees for their safety. Their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, will move to Belarus, according to the agreement mediated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Videos shared on social media from Rostov overnight purportedly showed the mercenaries withdrawing from the city in a convoy of armoured vehicles, tanks and coaches to the sound of cheers, chants of “Wagner” and celebratory gunfire from local residents.Alarm for authoritiesThe show of support for Wagner’s short-lived insurrection will alarm the authorities in a country increasingly intolerant of any public criticism of Putin and his rule.
After capturing Rostov — the main rear logistical hub for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the mercenaries raced hundreds of kilometres north in what Prigozhin called a “march for justice”, transporting tanks and armoured trucks and smashing through barricades set up to stop them, before the deal to withdraw was reached.
Peskov would not say whether any concessions were made to Prigozhin, other than guarantees of safety for him — something he said Putin vouched for — and for Prigozhin’s men, to persuade him to withdraw all his forces.
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