troops were again, as part of this deal, sent back or returned themselves to their camps inside occupied ukraine. but we haven't seen any evidence that he's turned up in belarus. my own speculation is he might choose to go somewhere a bit safer, a bit further away from the reach of vladimir putin's intelligence services to some of the places in africa, central african republic or libya, where his mercenary group has a footprint. but the future of the mercenary group itself, of course, remains in question now, as indeed does the coherence of the russian military effort inside ukraine because what he said at the beginning of that coup attempt, as he said it wasn't in a weird way, even though he was marching on the russian capital, he said was not committing a coup but actually trying to rid the country of the military leadership. but he did say that vladimir putin's reasons for invading