Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (Ilya Pitalev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
An official press release by Belarusian government claimed that Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin has agreed to de-escalate and halt the movement of PMCs to Moscow for the time being following negotiations with President Alexander Lukashenko.