Wagner Group private military company founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, left, leaves the Southern Military District headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Earlier in the day, the Belarusian presidential office said that the head of the military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, accepted Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's proposal to stop the movement of Wagner troops in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate the situation. Prigozhin later confirmed the information, saying that Wagner troops were returning back to their field camps.