Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner militia sent shockwaves across the globe when they attempted the first coup in Russia for three decades.
After accusing his country’s military leadership of “murdering tens of thousands of Russian soldiers” as a result of the disastrous invasion of Ukraine, Prigozhin launched an audacious march on Moscow to “punish” the defence minister and army top brass.
But after taking over government and military headquarters in Rostov and coming under fire in Voronezh, the insurrection was called off 200km from Moscow, with Prigozhin seemingly agreeing to go into exile in Belarus and his fighters standing down.
Here is an outline of how the mutiny unfolded and what came next.
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