Wagner ends revolt but Putin's grip questioned

The agreement halted an extraordinary crisis — a private army led by Mr Putin's former close ally Yevgeny Prigozhin trying to storm Moscow — but analysts said Wagner's revolt had exposed Mr Putin's rule as more fragile than previously thought.

Mr Prigozhin was last seen late on Saturday in an SUV leaving Rostov-on-Don, where his fighters had seized a military headquarters, to the cheers of some local people. Some shook his hand through the car window.There were reports that Wagner fighters had come as close as 400km from Moscow, while Mr Prigozhin himself claimed that"in 24 hours we got 200 kilometres from Moscow".

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Joe Biden discussed the revolt on Sunday, ahead of a Nato summit in Lithuania next month. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said he had negotiated the truce with Mr Prigozhin. Moscow thanked him, but observers noted that an intervention by Mr Lukashenko, usually seen as Mr Putin's junior partner, was itself an embarrassment.

"Most people, most military, understand very well that the circus from Russia is still here," said Mr Nazar, a 26-year-old bearded soldier, parked at a service station on a road leading out of the Bakhmut area.

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