Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the private Russian military company Wagner, will move to Belarus as part of a deal to defuse tensions after a brief revolt by Wagner Group soldiers under his command advanced hundreds of kilometres towards Moscow. The deal was mediated by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and under its terms, charges against Prigozhin of mounting an armed rebellion will be dropped. Putin's highest goal was to avoid bloodshed and internal confrontation with unpredictable results. Putin had earlier vowed to punish those behind the armed uprising led by his onetime protégé.

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