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How close did the rogue Wagner troops get to Moscow before their boss Prigozhin had a change of heart?

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How close did the rogue Wagner troops get to Moscow before their boss Prigozhin had a change of heart?

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner private military company, led an armed rebellion against the Russian military on June 24, 2023. He claimed that his forces came within 125 miles (200 kilometers) of Moscow before he agreed to halt his advance and return to his bases. He made this decision after talks with Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, who brokered a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin “>to avoid bloodshed.”> The rebellion was seen as the biggest threat to Putin’s rule in decades.

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