The mutiny is cancelled: Prigozhin turns Wagner PMC around and leaves for Belarus

The head of the Vagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, will go to Belarus "to work", the case of armed rebellion opened against him will be closed, and the mercenaries of the Vagner PMC will be released from any responsibility for their actions.

This was stated by the press secretary of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov.

The Russian president's press secretary also announced that the Wagner PMC mercenaries would return to their "field camps" and that no attempts would be made to bring them to justice. The militants who refused to comply with Prigozhin's order to stop the 'March of Justice' will sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence.

As a reminder, on 23 June, the leader of the Russian PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accused the Russian Ministry of Defence of striking Wagner's rear camps.

Subsequently, Prigozhin announced the so-called "March of Justice" to stop the "evil that the military leadership of the Russian Federation is doing".

Instead, Russian officials denied the accusations and opened a criminal case against Prigozhin.

On the morning of 24 June, Wagner's fighters seized all military facilities in Rostov. A "counter-terrorist operation" was introduced in a number of regions of the Russian Federation.

In an urgent address, Putin called the rebellion a "betrayal" and a "stab in the back".

Soon after, reports began to come in about Russian military helicopters being shot down by mercenaries over the Voronezh region. And the seizure of all military facilities in Voronezh.

In the late afternoon, it became known that Prigozhin's troops had already entered the Moscow region.

The press service of Alexander Lukashenko reported that he had held successful negotiations with Prigozhin, as a result of which it was agreed to end the rebellion.

After that, Prigozhin posted an audio recording on his Telegram channel, in which he said that his mercenaries were returning to their field camps. The Wagner PMC started its withdrawal from Rostov-on-Don.

The Wagner Private Military Company is recognised as an internationally designated criminal and terrorist organisation. It was created in 2013 in Russia to ensure the Kremlin's interests in armed conflicts without the involvement of regular Russian troops.

The group has participated in many military conflicts in countries such as Syria, Sudan and Libya. In particular, members of Wagner were also involved in the Russian war in Ukraine since the beginning of 2014. They took part in the battles for Luhansk airport and the Battle of Debaltseve.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, Wagner PMC has been actively involved in the war with Ukraine, in particular in the bloody battles for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, from which, on Prigozhin's order, his troops withdrew due to "shelling".