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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Pjotr Sauer

‘It was an emotional day’: calm returns to Moscow after Wagner stand-down

A child sits on his father's shoulders and a pro-Kremlin activist waves a flag bearing the face of Putin
Crowds in Moscow on Sunday where roadblocks and checkpoints were removed but Red Square remained closed. Photograph: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP

A sense of normal returned to Moscow on Sunday after Yevgeny Prigozhin halted his assault on the Russian capital under a deal that defused an unprecedented challenge to the authority of president Vladimir Putin.

Security forces were seen disassembling barricades that had been hurriedly put up as Prigozhin’s Wagner troops approached along the M4 road from Rostov-on-Don, while workers began repairing roads leading up to the capital that were destroyed to stop the warlord’s advances before he ordered their withdrawal.

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