Russia has dropped the criminal case filed against the chief of the paramilitary group Wagner after the group’s head, Yevgeny Prigozhin, ordered forces to retreat.

The announcement came in a late Saturday statement by the Kremlin after Prigozhin ordered his fighters to stop marching towards Moscow and vacate the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, which they had taken control of after launching a mutiny.

According to the Kremlin's statement, Prigozhin's current whereabouts are unknown, but he will move to Belarus under a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, which ended the mutiny that Prigozhin led against Russia's military leadership.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the Belarusian president had offered to mediate himself, adding that the Russian leadership highly appreciated his efforts.

Prigozhin had accused Russia’s military top brass of ordering a rocket attack on Wagner’s field camps in Ukraine -- where Russia has been leading a military operation -- killing "huge numbers” of his paramilitary forces.

Later on Saturday, the regional governor of Rostov-on-Don, Vasily Golubev, said Wagner group fighters had left the city, adding, "A Wagner column left Rostov and headed to their field camps."

According to Russian media, all restrictions imposed on the country’s highways were lifted after Wagner forces started to go back to their bases.