The Kremlin says criminal charges against Yevgeny Prigozhin will be dropped as part of the deal to end the armed mutiny.

 
The rebel leader of a Russian mercenary group will go into exile in Belarus and have criminal charges against him dropped, after he pulled his fighters back from advancing on Moscow.

Yevgeny Prigozhin had told his troops heading towards the Russian capital to turn back, saying he wants to avoid shedding Russian blood.

In his message, Prigozhin said: “In 24 hours we reached within 200km of Moscow. Over that time we didn’t shed a single drop of our men’s blood.

“Now though the time has come when blood might be shed. Therefore, mindful of the responsibility that Russian blood might be shed by one of the parties, we are turning our columns round and moving off in the opposite direction, to the field camps, according to plan.”

In an extraordinary turn of events, the Kremlin said all criminal charges against Prigozhin would dropped and his Wagner Group fighters would not be prosecuted. #featured #kremlin #wagner #Prigozhin #putin