Russian Lawmaker Announces Wagner Group's Withdrawal from Ukraine as Prigozhin's Jet Makes Second Landing in Belarus

The Russian mercenary group, Wagner, will no longer fight in Ukraine after its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, refused to sign contracts to bring the group under the control of the Russian defense ministry. Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, an influential Russian lawmaker, stated that Wagner will no longer receive funding from the state. Prigozhin's attempted mutiny ended with him seeking refuge in Belarus, facilitated by Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko. Ukraine's defense intelligence chief has claimed that Russia's secret service, the FSB, has been assigned the task of killing Prigozhin.