Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin later suggested that his fighters decided to turn back to avoid bloodshed when they were 200 kilometers from Moscow, while Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said that he held talks with the Wagner leader with Putin’s approval, and Prigozhin accepted a de-escalation agreement.
Over the past few months, Prigozhin has repeatedly accused the Russian Defense Ministry and Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu of not supplying enough weapons to the paramilitary group.