‘To avoid bloodshed’ — Wagner leader ends rebellion, orders troops to retreat from Moscow | TheCable
June 25, 2023 1:04 AMYevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner militia, has asked his troops to stand down from an insurrection that threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority.
Earlier, the Wagner leader and his troops were advancing towards Moscow, the Russian capital, after reportedly seizing power in Rostov-on-Don, a city of more than a million people close to the border with Ukraine. The paramilitary were fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine but dropped their arms after their leader accused the country’s army of “killing scores” of his fighters with a rocket attack.
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