What is the Wagner Group and who is its leader?
What happened in Russia?
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Mutinous mercenary fighters headed towards Moscow after seizing a southern Russian city on the orders of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Fighters are now standing down.
The Russian leader has vowed to crush Prigozhin's uprising, the country's first armed insurrection in decades.
But who exactly is the former hot-dog-seller-turned-militia-leader, and why is did his private army face off against Russia's military?
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