Wagner leader Evgeny Prigozhin has announced that his PMC will turn around and leave for the field camps.
Prigozhin has published an official audio message stating that the columns stopped 200 kilometers from Moscow.
According to him, the moment had come "when blood could be shed". Understanding the full responsibility of the moment, the Wagner PMCs columns will return to field camps according to the plan, Prigozhin said.
"They sought to disband the Wagner PMC. We set off on June 23 on our march of justice. In a day we traveled to within 200 kilometers of Moscow. In this time, we have not shed a single drop of our fighters' blood. Now the moment has arrived when blood may be shed. Therefore, understanding our full responsibility for the possibility of Russian blood being shed by one of the sides, we are turning our columns around and heading in the opposite direction to our encampments in accordance with the plan," Prigozhin said in an audio recording Saturday evening.
The statement was made following an announcement by the Belarussian president's press service that the country's leader agreed with Prigozhin that the latter will stop Wagner group's movement on the territory of Russia.
Lukashenko's talks with Prigozhin, said to have stretched throughout the day Saturday, were agreed with Putin.
"As a result, the parties agreed to to the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on Russian territory. Evgeny Prigozhin accepted President Lukashenko's proposal to stop the movement of Wagner's forces in Russia and to take further steps to de-escalate tensions," the report said.
The report further indicated that "absolutely advantageous and acceptable option for resolving the situation" had been tabled, including "security guarantees for Wagner's fighters."