Moscow, 25 June 2023 (dpa/MIA) - Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Monday will remain a non-working day for residents of the Russian capital, even though the armed stand-off on the main road to the city has ended.

In the early hours of Saturday's mutiny by the mercenaries of the Wagner private army, Sobyanin had declared Monday a day off work for most people in Moscow for security reasons and asked them to stay at home.

The decision was taken as Wagner forces advanced in a convoy toward Moscow on a mission to oust the Russian military leadership, raising the spectre of battles between the mercenaries led by oligarch-turned-warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russia's regular armed forces.

Checkpoints were erected and roads closed off in the city.

The uprising was dramatic but short lived, with Prigozhin retreating after striking a deal with the Kremlin that sees him moving to Belarus in exchange for Moscow forgoing his prosecution.

A spokeswoman for Sobyanin confirmed early Sunday in response to a question from the Ria Novosti news agency that the decision he had made was still valid and that Monday was a day off.