The two foes have been on the brink of a breakthrough before.

personnel and recruitment officials working for the Wagner Group in Syria.and three officersone colonel and two with the rank of lieutenant colonelwithin the Khmeimim Air Base.

Its contractors face accusations of committing human rights violations while doing so.Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.The country had denied a connection between the Russian government and the Wagner Group until Tuesday when Putin publicly admitted that the Kremlin fully funds and supplies the private military company run by the Prigozhin.

Wagner troops pulled back from their march to the capital after the Kremlin said a deal had been brokered by Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to avoid bloodshed.which denied that the groups commanders had been arrested in Syria.

Wagner Group members sit in a military vehicle with a Brother sign in Rostov-on-Don

Biden and Xi also had what the senior administration official described as a substantial exchange about Taiwan.Inside a coronavirus quarantined cruise ship 03:43 Financial markets.

The virus has killed 638 people.central bank said in its semiannualreportto Congress on Friday that the outbreak

down from a previous forecast of 6%.the vast majority of them in China.