Wagner’s mercenary group is completing the transfer of weapons to Russia’s regular armed forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, more than two weeks after. the group staged a brief armed rebellionReuters reports.

The ministry said Wagner handed over more than 2,000 pieces of equipment, including tanks and missiles, as well as more than 2,500 tons of ammunition.

The arms surrender followed a deal with the Kremlin in which Wagner and mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin ended their short-lived insurgency last month.

Wagner’s fighters, who took part in some of the war’s heaviest fighting in Ukraine, had the option of joining Prigozhin in exile in Belarus, joining the regular Russian armed forces, or returning home.

During the June 23-24 uprising, mercenaries took control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and shot down an unspecified number of military helicopters, killing the pilots, as they advanced toward Moscow.

Prigozhin said the actions of his men were designed to protest what he called the corruption and incompetence of the Russian military leadership in the war in Ukraine.

The uprising is seen by many as the most serious challenge to President Vladimir Putin since he took office on the last day of 1999. The uprising was stopped thanks to an agreement brokered by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. Under the deal, which the Kremlin says was made to prevent bloodshed, the criminal case against Prigozhin and his fighters was dropped.

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