Yevgeny Prigozhin says he will take revenge after claiming rocket attack in Russian region killed scores of his fighters
Russian president Vladimir Putin makes an emergency televised statement in Moscow as Wagner fighters stage a rebellion.
Our Washington Correspondent Martin Wall reports that the United States said it is monitoring the situation in Russia. “With very limited evidence of fighting between Wagner and Russian security forces, some have likely remained passive, acquiescing to Wagner,” the defence ministry added.Wagner group commander, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has claimed he is inside Russian army headquarters in Rostov-on-Don. More extraordinarily, the chief of the mercenary group claimed his fighters were in control of the city’s military sites.
The governor of the region the city is located in has asked people to refrain from travelling to the city centre and, if possible, not to leave their homes. Rostov also houses the command centre for the Russian joint group of forces in Ukraine as a whole and is therefore a critical logistical hub for the Russian army.
In a separate, unverified video, Prigozhin was seen telling military officials that his mercenaries would “not interfere with them commanding troops” but that their orders in Ukraine were leading to huge losses.
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