After striking deal with Putin, Prigozhin and his fighters abandon march on Moscow

In a bizarre turn of events, Wagner mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 24 abruptly called off his fighters’ march on Moscow, saying he had reached agreement with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to avoid “bloodshed.” At the same time, officials in Minsk said a deal between Prigozhin and Putin, brokered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, would see the Wagner warlord exiled to Belarus, those of his fighters that joined the march on Moscow amnestied, and the remaining Wagner mercenaries allowed to sign contracts with the regular Russian army. Press spokespeople...