Prigozhin reportedly orders convoys advancing toward Moscow to “return to field camps” - Russian media
That’s according to Interfax, referring to Prigozhin’s press service.
"Now the moment has come when blood can be shed. Therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that Russian blood will be shed on one of the sides, we turn our convoys around and proceed in the opposite direction, to their field camps," Prigozhin’s press office quoted the Wagner Group leader as saying.
Earlier on Saturday evening, the press service of Belarus’s Alexander Lukashenko said he held talks with Yevgeny Prigozhin throughout Saturday, during which the latter allegedly accepted a proposal to stop the advance of Wagner’s forces across Russia.
At the moment, “an absolutely favorable and acceptable option” for resolving the crisis is on the table, the report adds, noting that it involves “security guarantees for Wagner PMC fighters,” the press service said.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, on the morning of June 24, tensions between Wagner Group and Russia’s defense ministry spilled into a full-on military confrontation. Wagner’s units seized administrative and military headquarters in Rostov before moving to seize Voronezh on their declared path to reach Moscow.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted to the mutiny of the "Wagner" PMC against the Russian authorities and stated that the weakness of the Russian Federation is currently obvious. According to him, Ukraine is able to protect Europe from the spread of Russian evil and chaos.
