leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita
prigozhin. he is a former convict who became a chef to vladimir putin but he did a lot of the kremlin s dirty work, too. disinformation from running troll farms to covert fighting in syria and ukraine. since the full scale invasion, prigozhin had been recruiting soldiers from prisons but this weekend a dispute exploded. vladimir putin declared the mutiny of betrayal, a stab in the mutiny of betrayal, a stab in the back stock but it was a problem he himself had allowed to get out of hand. a stab in the back,. but the potentialfor hand. a stab in the back,. but the potential for clashes were clear. and then suddenly as it began, it was over. prigozhin said his men were turning around to avoid bloodshed and belarus announced it helped negotiate that. late last