Breaking: Wagner's chief said his forces will stop their march on Moscow and return to their camps after a deal was brokered by Belarus
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the moves as an armed rebellion and ordered his forces to suppress what he called an act of treason. His war in UkraineWagner is a private army led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose troops have played a key role in Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Their uprising threatens to undermine Russia's defenses against a newly launched Ukrainian counteroffensive intended to recapture occupied land.
Wagner troops were the only Russian forces able to advance in Ukraine in nearly a year, taking the city of Bakhmut last month, and Prigozhin has garnered a wide following for his firebrand, populist rhetoric against Russian elites. High salaries and a flexible if fiercely brutal culture helped Wagner begin to recruit away the regular military’s best officers and soldiers.On Friday, Prigozhin—now the subject of an arrest warrant on mutiny charges—claimed the Russian military killed “an enormous amount” of his troops in strikes on Wagner camps, which Moscow denied.As Wagner columns moved toward Moscow on Saturday, they were attacked by Russian aircraft in the Voronezh region, some 300 miles south of the capital.
If the Wagner insurrection isn’t put down swiftly, the strife could significantly undermine Russia’s front-line troops in Ukraine just as Kyiv carries out
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