Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, is to leave Russia for Belarus after calling off his troops' rebellion

 WAGNER PULLS BACK BUT MUTINY WEAKENS PUTIN'S IMAGE OF AUTHORITY

1. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, is to leave Russia for Belarus after calling off his troops' rebellion
2. Wagner fighters were filmed leaving the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, a major Russian military post that they had taken control of
3. Prigozhin and his troops will not be prosecuted despite being accused of armed mutiny, the Kremlin says
4. President Vladimir Putin had decried Prigozhin's actions as "treason" in a national TV address on Saturday
   
   
   
5. But the situation de-escalated just as Wagner troops were heading towards the capital, Moscow
6. The deal to end the rebellion came from negotiations between Prigozhin and Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko
7. FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-66006142