press we have all sorts of new questions that putin is going to have to address in the weeks and months aheadprigozhin who sent out a series of audio and video updates during his revolt has gone silent since the kremlin announced the dealits not clear if hes in belarus yet or whether any of his wagner troops would follow himin response to questions from the associated press prigozhins press office replied that he could not reply immediately but will answer the questions when he gets a normal connectionvideo taken by the associated press in rostovondon showed people cheering wagner troops as they departed some ran to shake hands with prigozhin who was riding in an suvthe regional governor later said that all of the troops had left the city russian news agencies also reported that lipetsk authorities confirmed wagner forces had left that region which sits on the road to moscow from rostovmoscow had braced for the arrival of the wagner forces by erecting checkpoints with armored vehicles and troops on the citys southern edge about 3000 chechen soldiers were pulled from fighting in ukraine and rushed there early saturday state television in chechnya reported russian troops armed with machine guns put up checkpoints on moscows southern outskirts crews dug up sections of highways to slow the marchby sunday afternoon the troops had withdrawn from the capital and people swarmed the streets and flocked to cafes traffic returned to normal and roadblocks and checkpoints were removed but red square remained close to visitors on highways leading to moscow crews repaired roads ripped up just hours earlier in panicanchors on statecontrolled television stations cast the deal ending the crisis as a show of putins wisdom and aired footage of wagner troops retreating from rostovondon to the relief of local residents who feared a bloody battle for control of the citypeople there who were interviewed by channel 1 hailed putins rolebut the usbased institute for the study of war warned that the kremlin now faces a deeply unstable equilibriumthe deal is a shortterm fix not a longterm solution wrote the institute which has tracked the war in ukraine from the beginningprigozhin had demanded the ouster of defence minister sergei shoigu whom prigozhin has long criticized in withering terms for his conduct of the war in ukrainethe us had intelligence that prigozhin had been building up his forces near the border with russia for some time that conflicts with prigozhins claim that his rebellion was a response to an attack on his camps in ukraine on friday by the russian militaryin announcing the rebellion prigozhin accused russian forces of targeting the wagner camps in ukraine with rockets helicopter gunships and artillery he alleged that gen valery gerasimov chief of the general staff ordered the attacks following a meeting with shoigu in which they decided to destroy the military contractorthe defence ministry denied attacking the campscongressional leaders were briefed on the wagner buildup earlier last week a person familiar with the matter said