You don't march halfway to Moscow, occupy a couple of large cities without much bloodshed, and then turn back just after a quick negotiation. In a single day.

You don't march halfway to Moscow, occupy a couple of large cities without much bloodshed, and then turn back just after a quick negotiation. In a single day. Either this is part of the plan of how Prigozhin is managed by Kreml -- and as such, a part of how the subdivisions of power are managed and constantly reorganised -- or Prigozhin had acquired some valuable piece of power but he needed to march towards Moscow in order to be taken seriously. You don't try something like this unless you know you're going to get out of it.