What Is Russia’s Wagner Group and Why Was It Accused of Mutiny?
Members of Wagner group sit atop of a tank in a street in the city of Rostov-on-Don, on June 24.
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Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia’s private militia the Wagner Group, called off his mutiny after his forces advanced to within a few hundred miles of Moscow, defusing the biggest threat to Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia in his almost quarter-century rule.