and the consequences for the rest of the world. kremlin spokesperson says, the leader of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin, will not face charges for actions russian president vladimir putin described as treason just hours ago. spokesperson also saying, prigozhin will head to neighboring belarus, with wagner soldiers would not be prosecuted. this comes after prigozhin ordered his forces to turn back, return to their bases, abandoning an armed rebellion that had them heading toward moscow. we are looking at new video into us taken from the city of rostov near the ukrainian border. as all these new developments come in and we get these new images, the question remains, how do we get here this fast? the wagner group was what russia calls a, quote, private military company. over the u.s. calls the group a proxy force that had been fighting on russia s behalf in ukraine. on friday, prigozhin accused russia s defense minister, ordering a rocket strike on wagner s camps
correspondent, julia chester. ruth, what are you learning at this hour? how did we get to this point? well, alicia, in the last hour, we have seen video of yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the wagner mercenary group, leaving the city of rostov, that southern russian city that his forces seized in the early hours of this morning. and alicia, worryingly for the kremlin, prigozhin was cheered by civilians on the streets as he drove off. he was getting a kind of folk hero s farewell, that is not what vladimir putin wants to see from a man who just a few hours ago, he was accusing of betraying the russian people, betraying the russian army that prigozhin left that military headquarters, where he s been camped out all day, a few hours after putin s spokesman gave us our first insight into the deal that appears, emphasis on appears, to have brought this rebellion to an and, as you said, prigozhin will not be