The armed rebellion led by the Wagner Group, a Russian private military company, involved a march towards Moscow with the aim of ousting Russia's defense minister.
The leader of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and his mercenaries advanced from Rostov-on-Don towards Moscow, seizing military facilities along the way.
However, when they were within 200 km of the capital, Prigozhin decided to turn his troops around to avoid bloodshed.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, who has been critical of the Russian military establishment, had previously vowed revenge after his group's base in Ukraine was allegedly attacked by the Russian military.
Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the mutiny as a betrayal and labeled it an "armed mutiny" by the Wagner Group
Stating that anyone who took up arms against the Russian military would be punished.
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