by Jose Nino, Big League Politics:

On June 24, 2023 Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced that he hammered out a deal in which Wagner Group chieftain Evgeny Prigozhin pledged to stop his mutiny against the Russian Ministry of Defense in exchange for receiving “security guarantees” for his troops.

“Evgeny Prigozhin accepted the proposal of President Alexander Lukashenko to stop the movement of armed men of Wagner in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate tension,” a statement from Lukashenko’s office highlighted.