JABAR EKSPRES – Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his entire army have left the southern Russian city of Rostov-Na-Donu, a local official said on Sunday.
“Wagner’s troops have left Rostov and gone to their field camps,” Rostov Governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram.
Images on social media showed Wagner leaving the headquarters building of Russia’s Southern Military District in Rostov-Na-Don and removing their military equipment from the city.
Video footage also showed Prigozhin leaving Rostov-Na-Don by car.
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On Friday (June 23), Wagner accused Russian forces of attacking his fighters and pushing the paramilitary group from Ukraine to the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
Russia’s Federal Security Service then opened a criminal case against Wagner’s group for armed rebellion. President Vladimir Putin called the rebellion an act of “treason”.
Prigozhin said he would deploy his troops to Moscow, prompting the Kremlin – as the Russian government is known – to increase security in various parts of the country.
However, Prigozhin later stated that he would withdraw his troops in Russia when they were about 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Meanwhile, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko said he had held talks with the Wagner leader with Putin’s approval, adding that Prigozhin accepted the de-escalation deal.
Russia has also dropped the criminal case against the Wagner group leader.
