Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former Putin ally and founder of the Wagner army, said his men reached within 125 miles (200 km) of the capital.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former Putin ally and founder of the Wagner army, said his men reached within 125 miles of the capital.
On Saturday night, Wagner fighters loaded tanks on trailers and began withdrawing from the Rostov military headquarters they had seized, a Reuters witness said. Reuters could not independently verify how far Prigozhin's mercenaries had reached. Video earlier showed convoys of Wagner vehicles less than 310 miles from Moscow.
Wagner's lightning insurrection appeared to develop with little pushback from Russia's regular armed forces, raising questions about Putin's grip on power in the nuclear-armed nation even after the abrupt halt to Wagner's advance. In a televised address from the Kremlin, Putin earlier said the Wagner rebellion put Russia's very existence under threat.
"Today the world can see that the masters of Russia control nothing. And that means nothing. Simply complete chaos. An absence of any predictability," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.
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