leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita
beginning to wonder how things would develop, yevgeny prigozhin appeared to step back from the brink but we don t know exactly what the deal was or what he was offered and we don t know whether he got what he wanted because he was of course demanding for the two key figures of the military establishment in russia to stand down. the defence minister sergei shoigu and barrass off. as far as we understand those two are still in their post. gerasimov. it is unclear on what terms yevgeny prigozhin has now agreed to go to belarus and indeed what he is going to do there. is he going to retire gracefully or is he going to still be involved as a mercenary, as some kind of political military figure inside belarus? so much is still unanswered as after what is an incredible day. bud unanswered as after what is an incredible day. incredible day. and we know wars like this is about incredible day. and we know wars