Wagner troops leave Rostov-on-Don and Yevgeny Prigozhin will move to Belarus under a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to end the mutiny.
Mr Lukashenko is a close ally of Mr Putin. The Belarusian border with Ukraine was an entry point to Ukraine for Mr Putin's troops when the war began in February 2022.
Facing the first serious challenge to his grip on power of his 23-year rule, President Vladimir Putin had vowed to crush the armed mutiny he compared to Russia's Civil War a century ago.Loading... Three thousand elite Chechen troops took up positions in Moscow to defend the Russian capital against advancing mutineers from the Wagner mercenary group, the Chechen state broadcaster "Grozny" said on Saturday night.
And addressing Mr Putin while switching from Ukrainian into Russian, Mr Zelenskyy said: "The longer your troops remain on Ukrainian land, the greater the devastation they will bring to Russia."Western capitals said they were closely following the situation in nuclear-armed Russia.
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