Wagner fighters withdrew from the city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday after their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered them to return to their bases to “avoid bloodshed”. Yevgeny Prigozhin said his men arrived on Saturday 200km from the capital Wagner. the militants captured the city of Rostov, hundreds of kilometers to the south, then marched north in a convoy, carrying tanks and armored trucks and breaking through barricades set up to stop them.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The head of Wagner’s group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Saturday called off a “military mutiny” after Belarusian President Oleksandr Lukashenko announced a deal with him.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that the armed uprising of the “Wagner” PMC mercenaries is treason and anyone who turns a weapon against the Russian military will be punished.
• Accused of the uprising, Prigozhin asks Shoigu and Gerasimov to come to Rostov
• Police officers in body armor and with assault rifles stood on the main road connecting Moscow with Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don as Wagner’s motorcade passed through Lipetsk.
• Images of tanks on the streets of Moscow are reminiscent of the final months of the Soviet Union in 1991, The Guardian writes in an analysis that suggests Vladimir Putin looks weaker than at any time since he became president in 2000.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday called on the international community to “abandon false neutrality” towards Russia and provide Kiev with all the necessary weapons to push Moscow’s forces out of Ukraine.

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