The chief of Russia's paramilitary group will no longer march on Moscow - for now.
In a stunning turn of events, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group said Saturday he had ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to their field camps in Ukraine to de-escalate tensions.
The announcement from Putin's former ally appeared to defuse a growing domestic crisis over the past 24 hours. According to the Associated Press, Moscow had braced for the arrival of the private army led by thePrigozhin said that while his men are just 200 kilometers from Moscow, he decided to turn them back to avoid “shedding Russian blood.
Prigozhin appears to have accepted Lukashenko’s offer to halt the Wagner group’s advance, said Lukashenko’s office, adding that the proposed settlement contains security guarantees for Wagner troops.features in-depth reporting, gripping narratives, and world-class photography, plus heaping doses of Oscar-blogging, royal-watching, and assorted guilty pleasures.
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