MOSCOW/KYIV — Muscovites on Saturday expressed unease or dismissed as political theater a standoff pitting the Kremlin against Wagner mercenaries who had vowed to descend on the capital in a 'march of justice' denouncing the conduct of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainians, on the other hand, were clearly satisfied, sometimes gleeful, at the prospect of a split in Russian ranks 16 months after the Kremlin's troops invaded their country. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, had declared that a 'counter-terrorism regime' was in force, before the leader of the Wagner private militia announced that his fighters would turn back to avoid bloodshed.

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