Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is reportedly shutting down his Russian media holdings following his short-lived rebellion. The reports first emerged on Friday.
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin leaves the headquarters of the Southern Military District amid the group's pullout from the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
All outlets under the group, including People's News and Economics Today, are shutting down permanently. The group also owns the Internet Research Agency, a"troll factory" that runs online influence campaigns, according to the Moscow Times. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko enter the hall during the Supreme Economic Eurasian Council at the Grand Kremlin Palac in Moscow, Russia.
Prigozhin marched an alleged 25,000 mercenaries nearly all the way to Moscow over the weekend, demanding the ouster of Russian military leadership before making an abrupt about-face. not to"wipe out" Prigozhin during last week's short-lived rebellion, which Putin had called"treason." Putin had vowed to flatten the rebels, comparing the incident to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and subsequent civil war, but Lukashenko claimed to have brokered a deal where Prigozhin would relocate to Belarus and Wagner Group fighters would not face prosecution.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
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