Members of the Wagner Group military company load their tank onto a truck on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's troops who joined him in the uprising will not face prosecution and those who did not will be offered contracts by the Defense Ministry. After the deal was reached Saturday, Prigozhin ordered his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, right, sits inside a military vehicle posing for a selfie photo with a local civilian on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area of the headquarters of the Southern Military District. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Prigozhin's troops who joined him in the uprising will not face prosecution and those who did not will be offered contracts by the Defense Ministry. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Membes of the Wagner Group military company sit atop of a tank on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, prior to leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's troops who joined him in the uprising will not face prosecution and those who did not will be offered contracts by the Defense Ministry. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Fighters of Wagner private mercenary group pull out of the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to base, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters)





A woman poses for a photo in front of the Wagner Group military vehicle on June 24, 2023 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Photo by Feodor Larin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Members of the Wagner Group prepare to depart from the Southern Military District's headquarters and return to their base on June 24, 2023 in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





Private military company (PMC) Wagner Group servicemen prepare to leave downtown Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, 24 June 2023. Security and armoured vehicles were deployed after the Chief of the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group said in a video that his troops had occupied the building of the headquarters of the Southern Military District, demanding a meeting with Russia's defense chiefs. The President of Belarus held talks with the head of the Wagner group, as a result of which he accepted a proposal to stop the movement of the group's fighters across Russia, the press service of the President of Belarus reported. The Chief of Wagner Group has said that columns of his group will return to field camps. (Photo by Arkady Budnitsky/EPA)





People shout and wave a flag of the Wagner Group military company to servicemen prior to their leaving an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Yevgeny Prigozhin's troops who joined him in the uprising will not face prosecution and those who did not will be offered contracts by the Defense Ministry. After the deal was reached Saturday, Prigozhin ordered his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Two local men pose for a photo with servicemen of the Wagner Group military company sitting in their military vehicle on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023, as they prepare to leave an area at the headquarters of the Southern Military District. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A man holds the Russian national flag in front of a Wagner group military vehicle with the sign read as “Rostov” in Rostov-on-Don late on June 24, 2023. Rebel mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin who sent his fighters to topple the military leaders in Moscow will leave for Belarus and a criminal case against him will be dropped as part of a deal to avoid “bloodshed”, the Kremlin said on June 24. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Fighters of Wagner private mercenary group pull out of the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to base, in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia on June 24, 2023. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A local woman poses with private military company (PMC) Wagner Group serviceman as he prepares to leave downtown Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, 24 June 2023. Security and armoured vehicles were deployed after the Chief of the private military company (PMC) Wagner Group said in a video that his troops had occupied the building of the headquarters of the Southern Military District, demanding a meeting with Russia's defense chiefs. The President of Belarus held talks with the head of the Wagner group, as a result of which he accepted a proposal to stop the movement of the group's fighters across Russia, the press service of the President of Belarus reported. The Chief of Wagner Group has said that columns of his group will return to field camps. (Photo by Arkady Budnitsky/EPA)





A man waves the Russian national flag as the members of Wagner group prepare to pull out from the headquarters of the Southern Military District to return to their base in Rostov-on-Don late on June 24, 2023. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





A policeman patrols an empty Red Square in Moscow, on June 25, 2023. (Photo by Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP Photo)





Russian soldiers walk past an area where the Wagner Group military company's tank was parked near the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, Sunday, June 25, 2023. After a deal was reached Saturday, mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Utility workers repair a road near the headquarters of the Russian Southern Military District in Rostov-On-Don, Russia on 25, 2023. (Photo by Nikolai Trishin/TASS)





People walk in the area where the headquarters of the Southern Military District are based, in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, Sunday, June 25, 2023. After a deal was reached Saturday, mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin ordered his troops to halt their march on Moscow and retreat to field camps in Ukraine, where they have been fighting alongside Russian troops. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





A person (C-R, rear), seen through a gate, walks in the blocked Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 25 June 2023. Moscow's Red Square remained closed on the day after security in the city was tightened. On 24 June, counter-terrorism measures were enforced in Moscow and other Russian regions after private military company (PMC) Wagner Group's chief claimed that his troops had occupied the building of the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don, demanding a meeting with Russia's defense chiefs. Belarusian President Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, negotiated a deal with Wagner chief Prigozhin to stop the movement of the group's fighters across Russia, the press service of the President of Belarus reported. The negotiations were said to have lasted for the entire day. Prigozhin announced that Wagner fighters were turning their columns around and going back in the other direction, returning to their field camps. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)