Moscow said the charges against Prigozhin will be dropped and his fighters will not be prosecuted. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Kremlin announced on Saturday thatPrigozhin’s whereabouts were unknown on Sunday, but Moscow saidand his fighters will also not be prosecuted.
The anti-terrorist regime was introduced in Moscow on Saturday, as Prigozhin’s forces appeared to advance on the capital, with the authorities asking residents to limit travel. In the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, which Wagner fighters left late on Saturday after taking the main army headquarters there, traffic resumed as normal, Russian state media reported.
The authorities in the Kaluga region, south of Moscow, said on Saturday they were starting to lift road restrictions introduced to stop the Wagner rebellion.
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