Wagner PMC fighters are leaving Rostov-on-Don. They are greeted with applause

Wagner PMC fighters, who seized the center of Rostov-on-Don on June 23 on the orders of Yevgeny Prigozhin, began to leave the city, reports 161.ru.

This happened after Prigozhin announced that he was ending the so-called march of justice on Moscow.

RIA Novosti publishes footage from the headquarters of the Southern Military District in Rostov-on-Don: the Wagnerites start tanks and load ammunition. As told the agency correspondent, the Wagner PMC plans to return to a field camp in the annexed LPR. one of the mercenaries

As can be seen from the video from social networks, the locals take pictures with the fighters and applaud them.

The Telegram channel Mash also reports that in Moscow they began to turn off roadblocks that were set up in case Wagner PMC mercenaries approached the city.

• The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, launched a military coup in Russia on the evening of June 23, calling it a “march of justice.” By the morning of the next day, Wagner PMC mercenaries captured Rostov-on-Don and sent a column in the direction of Moscow. Later, information appeared that PMC fighters occupied some military facilities in Voronezh and appeared in the Lipetsk region.
• Yevgeny Prigozhin demanded that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov be handed over to mercenaries, accusing them of crimes. The FSB opened a criminal case against him for a military mutiny. Vladimir Putin, and other Russian officials after him, called what is happening a betrayal and treason.
• On the evening of June 24, the press service of Alexander Lukashenko announced that Prigozhin, during negotiations with him, agreed to stop the movement of mercenaries. Following this, the head of the PMC said that the mercenaries "deploy their columns" and "leave in the opposite direction to the field camps according to the plan."