Lukashenko's office does not confirm Prigozhin's arrival in Belarus – media

Russian media Fontanka said this during a telephone conversation on 26 June.

"There is no such information," the press officer replied to the journalist's question about Prigozhin and offered to send an official request.

In the evening of 24 June, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that as a result of negotiations in which Lukashenko took an active part, the mutiny was stopped in order to "prevent the unleashing of a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia". Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted Lukashenko's proposal to stop the movement of the Wagner PMC, and, according to Peskov, he himself would go to Belarus.

What is known about Prigozhin's armed rebellion

For several months, there has been a conflict between Yevgeny Prigozhin, the financier of Wagner PMC, and the Russian Ministry of Defense. However, the situation escalated quickly on the evening of June 23.

Allegedly, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Wagner base. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner PMC, announced a "march of justice" and stated that 25,000 mercenaries were heading to Moscow after the Russian leadership refused to hand over Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

On Saturday, June 24, in addition to Rostov-on-Don, where they initially gathered around the headquarters of the Southern Military District, the Wagner group also took control of Voronezh. Their convoys, which had diverted from the Ukrainian border, were moving towards Moscow. Military aircraft and artillery under Shoigu's control attempted to stop them. The units of Wagner PMC were last spotted in the Lipetsk region. In Moscow itself, defensive positions were established, trenches were dug, and all security forces were mobilized.

However, on the evening of June 24, the press service of the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, released a statement in which the head of the Wagner PMC stated that he was ready to stop the advance of his mercenaries' military convoys, which were already approaching Moscow, and to reach an agreement with the Kremlin. Prigozhin allegedly agreed on this during a conversation with Lukashenko.