In an official audio statement, Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin has ordered his forces to return to their camps, which comes was Belarus said he had accepted terms for de-escalation following negotiations with President Alexander Lukashenko.

The statement read:

“They were going to dismantle PMC Wagner. We came out on 23 June to the March of Justice. In a day, we walked to nearly 200km away from Moscow. In this time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of our fighters. Now, the moment has come when blood may spill. That’s why, understanding the responsibility for spilling Russian blood on one of the sides, we are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to the plan.”