Yevgeny Prigozhin the leader of the Wagner Group was pictured smiling and taking selfies with the public as he was forced into “exile”.
The 62-year-old looked unphased at the failure of his armed march on Moscow yesterday as he returned to the Wagner base of operations at Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia.
As Wagner mercenaries left Rostov on Sunday crowds chanted “Wagner! Wagner!” as the motley assortment of war criminals moved out of the town they had captured on their way to Moscow.