russian mercenary leader per goes after 24 hours of mayhem. prigozhin agreed to leave russia after talks with the leader of belarus the kremlin says he will be prosecuted. wagner troops have also begun to leave the southern city of where the mutiny began. hours earlier vladimir putin had called the rebellion treason. moscow residents have been told to avoid traveling and all of mass outdoor events are canceled until next month. the zelenskyy says the last 24 hours and russia prove the country is in a state of chaos with no one in control. welcome to sky news breakfast, the rebellion by russian mercenary leader yevgeny prigozhin appears to be over, within 24 hours his forces have taken this southern city of a key communication hope for the word ukraine, sentence armored russian president flipped a knife in the back of our people and call them traitors. in the deal negotiated with belarus the kremlin now says that the rebel leader will be allowed to leave the coun
factions at arms length, prigozhin doesn t have a direct line to vladimir putin that s why he likes to shout on social media all the time. so, you know, this is a very strange situation frankly given the amount of noise that prigozhin has been making over the last three or four months, you know, one would have been foolish to think that it couldn t have gone this far. but i think the fact that there are so many question marks over how quickly it resolved does beg a lot of questions, if prigozhin is given power not florida that will be extremely uncomfortable for the west for ukraine for the belarusian people lukashenko s rumored to be ill he s been in moscow a lot, i m sure the kremlin is looking around for someone who can exert power in belarus. if prigozhin is still somebody
you ve been hearing that president xi of china was involved. sources are telling us that yesterday actually he played a critical role in this deal in fact a deal may have been hammered out between lukashenko of and xi before i was put to putin, that sounds bizarre but anything is possible in the situation. president xi as a restraining force on vladimir putin he doesn t necessarily want to be associated publicly, drove his fingerprint on this. correct, obviously this would be seen as an internal matter and xi is known to not interfere in the affairs of other countries. what does this mean for the wagner group? they operate in other parts of the world, mainly africa. they are spread around the world, they are a business organization of the relationships going on around both politically and militarily our business relationships and