According to the Belarus President's Office, Wagner mercenary group commander Yevgeny Prigozhin has promised to halt the organization's rapid march into Moscow and deescalate the situation, which Prigozhin confirmed in a social media post.
According to Lukashenko's press department, Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, a close supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has met with Prigozhin.
According to the Belarussian president's administration, Lukashenko's negotiations with Prigozhin were sanctioned by Putin, and a draft deal is on the table that would give security assurances for Wagner fighters.
According to Russian official media TASS, a provisional agreement has been made to halt Wagner's march into Moscow, prompting Putin to promise to smash any insurgency.
In a post on his Telegram channel, Prigozhin revealed that he has ordered his mercenaries to halt their march on Moscow and retire to their field camps in Ukraine in order to prevent spilling Russian blood.
Earlier on Saturday, mutinous mercenaries from the Wagner Group pushed closer to Moscow after taking a southern city overnight, with Russia's military shooting from the air and erecting obstacles but doing nothing to slow their approach.
The rebel fighters are members of the Wagner private army, which is led by Prigozhin, a former close confidant of Putin, who threatened to destroy the armed insurrection, which he likened to Russia's Civil War a century ago, in a Kremlin address.
Putin entrusted Prigozhin years ago with forming the Wagner Group as a private army with no formal links to the government in order to provide the Kremlin with plausible deniability when employing its resources on critical operations overseas.
While the precise specifics of the Wagner Group's successes are sometimes obscure due to the secrecy of their activities, they have been known to participate in wars and give military support in nations such as Syria and, most recently, Ukraine.
Prigozhin seems to have turned on his old taskmaster after suffering losses in Ukraine, with Wagner suffering major fatalities in the tough fights around Bakhmut.
On his Telegram channel, he stated that his soldiers were on a "march for justice" to remove corrupt and incompetent leaders he holds responsible for the war in Ukraine.
The Wagner mutineers started off on a 680-mile trek toward Moscow after taking the city of Rostov overnight.
Wagner's activities are the first genuine challenge to Putin's dominance in his 23-year reign.
Putin has condemned the violent uprising and threatened to punish its leaders.
