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Events on Friday 23 June 2023 2
2023Wagner Group MutinyPrigozhin marches on MoscowYevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Russian private military company Wagner Group, launched an armed mutiny against Russia's military leadership, seizing the city of Rostov-on-Don and marching his forces toward Moscow. The rebellion was called off after negotiations brokered by Belarus, but it exposed cracks in Vladimir Putin's power. Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash two months later.
2023Wagner Group mutinies and marches on MoscowAn armed rebellion halted 200km from the capitalWagner Group forces under Yevgeny Prigozhin seized Rostov-on-Don and advanced towards Moscow on 23 June 2023 in the gravest challenge to Vladimir Putin's rule. The march was called off the next day under a deal brokered by Belarus.