Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

It appears the insurrection in Russia by the head of the private Russian army, the Wagner

group is over.

The head of that group, Yavgeny Vrigochen, says his mercenaries are heading, ending their

trek and returning to their field camps in Ukraine.

He ordered them to rush to oust the military commanders he says have botched the war in Ukraine.

Now he says they're turning back to avoid Russian bloodshed.

James Nixie is a Russian analyst at the Chatham House, which is a think tank.

And he says even before the apparent uprising by the mercenaries, morale was at a low among

the Russian troops in Ukraine.

It was already true that the Russians had a lack of motivation.

They didn't know what they were fighting for, especially.

They didn't really believe they were fighting for a denarcification of Ukraine.

That wasn't really fooling anybody.

The Kremlin says, Pregotian won't face charges and neither will it's crew.

He will be sent to Belarus.

This appears to be the most significant challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin in his

more than two decades in power.

The United Nations Human Rights Office is denouncing the killing of Sudanese civilians

fleeing in the western part of the country.

The UN is blaming Arab militias backed by the parliamentary RSF for what it says are

ethnically targeted attacks.

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