Wagner Mercenary Chief to Move to Belarus Not Face Prosecution for Rebel March: Kremlin

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, will move to neighboring Belarus as part of a deal to end what appeared to be an armed coup led by Prigozhin against Russia’s military leadership, according to the Kremlin. Prigozhin, who has been a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin for some 20 years, had earlier agreed to end what he described as a “march for justice” to topple Moscow’s military leadership after mediation from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko’s office said Saturday that the Belarusian leader had Putin’s blessing to broker a deal that ended up halting the lightning-fast advance of Wagner forces towards Moscow....