Prigozhin Turns Forces Back in Deal With Kremlin to Drop Charges
- Showdown averted after mercenary leader led troops on Moscow
- Uprising is biggest challenge to Putin’s rule in decades
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Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin halted his advance toward Moscow and pulled his fighters back, defusing what had become the biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia in his almost quarter-century rule.