“Putin made the wrong choice.” All the worse for him. ‘Soon we will have a new president’: Prigozhin’s Wagner group says Russian leader will be ousted while mercenary groups say they shot down Russian military helicopters

• Footage shows plumes of black smoke rising after a helicopter was attacked
• Russian forces appeared to confirm that three of their attack helicopters were shot down

By Katherine Lawton

Published: 11:55 AM, June 24, 2023 | Updated: 12:27 PM, June 24, 2023

Prigozhin’s Wagner group reportedly said that Russian leaders will be overthrown and “will soon have a new president.”

The Wagner group claimed to have shot down three Russian helicopters since the coup began – continuing its vow to punish military leaders.

Shocking footage shows huge plumes of black smoke billowing into the air in a field after a helicopter was allegedly attacked and burst into flames.

Russian forces apparently confirmed that Wagner shot down three of his attack helicopters.

A sinister message posted on the Wagner Telegram channel on Saturday said, “Putin made the wrong choice.” So much the worse for him.

“Soon we will have a new president.”

The founder of the private mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin (center), and fighters of the Russian Wagner group are seen at the headquarters of the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces in Rostov-on-Don

A sinister message posted on the Wagner Telegram channel on Saturday said, “Putin made the wrong choice.” So much the worse for him. Soon we will have a new President”

The Wagner group claims to have shot down three Russian helicopters since the beginning of their attempted coup

Addressing the Russian people today, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Prigozhin’s military coup a “treason” and said the military leader “stabbed him in the back”.

It comes as an enraged Prigozhin declared on Friday that his 25,000-strong force was entering Rostov-on-Don and was “unopposed”.

Prigozhin made the move out of anger at Moscow’s alleged attack on his men, adding that he intends to march to Moscow to confront the defense chiefs.

Additional video footage surfaced online today appeared to show a large oil depot in Voronezh engulfed in flames.

Videos show a helicopter flying over the depot before a massive explosion ejects a fireball into the air.

Addressing the Russian people today, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Prigozhin’s military coup a “treason” and said the military leader “stabbed him in the back”.

Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a video released early Saturday morning that his troops had reached the strategically important city of Rostov-on-Don

Prigozhin and his feared 25,000-strong Wagner militia have reportedly seized control of the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and have said they are “ready to die” as they swear vengeance for a military strike by Putin’s forces that has reportedly killed the mercenary leader killed some of his men.

All public events in the Russian capital were canceled as Vladimir Putin said on television some Russians had been “embroiled in a criminal adventure” to confirm his shaky position of power.

Putin described the group’s actions as a “criminal adventurous campaign” that was “tantamount to an armed mutiny” and urged those involved to halt all armed action as the unit’s headquarters in St. Petersburg was reportedly raided today.

Officials in Ukraine reported damage and casualties after a rocket attack hit Kiev and the eastern city of Kharkiv early Saturday.

Air defense also “detected and destroyed more than 20 missiles in the airspace around Kiev,” said Sergiy Popko, head of the Kiev military administration.

The debris from the crashed drone sparked a fire in the Kiev skyscraper, injuring seven people.

“Fragments of a rocket hit a parking lot,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on social media, saying two people were injured in central Kiev’s Solomjanskyi district.

He added that rescue workers were stationed at the scene of the blast.

At least three Russian missiles were aimed at Kharkiv, with one hitting a gas pipeline and starting a fire, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

For more than an hour, the whole country was on air raid alert.

The Ukrainian Air Force had separately reported missiles heading for the northern regions of Sumy and Poltava and downtown Dnipro.

“Several houses were completely destroyed. Huge crater after the explosion,” said Borys Filatov, mayor of downtown Dnipro.

Ukraine uses German Gepard tanks to defend its airspace

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Here are some of the other developments related to Russia’s war in Ukraine on Saturday June 24:

Ukraine is positive about EU membership

Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his confidence in Ukraine’s prospects of joining the European Union in his evening address on Friday.

The Ukrainian President said there was clear support for Ukraine’s EU membership. “We are already perceived politically as a member of the EU,” he said.

Zelenskyy’s speech followed the London Ukraine reconstruction conference. Based on the results of the conference, he said the event could bring “good profits” to the country. About five hundred global companies are interested in investing in Ukraine, he added.

Hopes of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia to become members of the European Union gained momentum this week as the union’s Europe ministers discussed their membership options at a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.

Speaking to the media in Stockholm, EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said Ukraine was “on track” with its progress and had “fulfilled two out of seven conditions” required for EU membership.

“Anti-terror” activities underway: Moscow mayor

Sergei Sobyanin, the mayor of Moscow, said “anti-terrorist” measures were being taken in the Russian capital after the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced his plans to overthrow the country’s military leadership.

“In connection with the information received in Moscow, anti-terrorist measures are being taken to strengthen security,” Sergei Sobyanin said on social media.

The measures include additional checks on roads to increase security.

Prigozhin on Saturday said his 25,000-strong force was “ready to die” as he vowed to overthrow Russia’s military leadership.

“We are all ready to die. All 25,000 and then another 25,000,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a new audio message. “We are dying for the Russian people.”

Germany sends 45 Gepard tanks to Ukraine

Germany will deliver 45 more Gepard anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine by the end of the year, said Christian Freuding, head of the Ukraine Situation Center at the Defense Ministry.

So far Germany has delivered 34 tanks and 15 more tanks will be delivered according to Germany’s plan.

“In addition, we want to send another 30 Gepard tanks in cooperation with the USA towards the end of the year,” said Freuding.

The defense general sees air defense as a major weakness in the current strategy of the Ukrainian army.

“We do what we can. But does Ukraine still have adequate air defenses? Clear no!” said Freuding.

Freuding told the German Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag that in addition to the Gepard tanks, two Iris-T SLM air defense systems will also be sent to Ukraine.

Ukraine holds peace meeting in Denmark

Ukraine is organizing a peace meeting in Denmark on Saturday, which will be attended by several countries and will discuss the path to peace.

A Western official, who spoke to Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity, said the meeting aimed to discuss ways to achieve a “just and lasting peace” in Ukraine.

High-ranking security officials from the US, the European Union and other countries have been invited to the meeting, which will take place in Copenhagen.

“We have been working very hard on a peace formula within the G7,” said a European diplomatic source, who also spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity.

“So the idea is to go beyond that and include key players like Brazil and India. To be honest, we expect and wish that China will be there.”

The British Financial Times reported on the meeting for the first time. According to FT’s report, Kyiv had insisted Washington should encourage participation by Brazil, India and South Africa, as well as China and Turkey – a NATO member that has good relations with Russia.

Three dead in Russian airstrike in Kiev

Ukrainian authorities reported three fatalities after Russia launched a fresh airstrike on Kiev on Saturday.

The missiles attacked at least five regions across the country, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

According to Klymenko, at least three people were killed and eight injured after a high-rise building in the capital was hit by a rocket.

“That’s the style of terrorists. The style of Russia,” he wrote on Telegram.

According to the Ukrainian military, the air defense systems destroyed 41 out of 51 cruise missiles, as well as two drones launched by Russia.

The head of Kiev’s military administration said more than 20 Russian missiles had been launched around the city.

Rescue workers searched the scene for people who may have been stuck in the rubble of the high-rise building.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said more people may have been trapped under the rubble.

mf/kb (AFP, Portal, dpa)

An unprecedented heat wave is currently sweeping the waters of the Atlantic. In June, the ocean from southern Iceland to Africa experiences particularly intense heat waveswith temperature anomalies greater than 5°C off the British Isles. This extreme phenomenon, which is causing great concern, will lead to an unseen slaughter of marine life, according to scientists.

A similar heat wave hit the waters of the Mediterranean Sea last year, notably with a difference of more than 6 degrees compared to the normal before Marseille in mid-July 2022 and consequences for around fifty marine species. Episodes that could well repeat themselves in the coming years due to global warming, with even greater force.

What do the scientists say?

The warming of the Atlantic is no exception. Between the months of March and May In fact, the average temperature at the surface of the oceans has reached an all-time high in 174 years of measurementAccording to the US Oceanographic Administration (NOAA), the temperature is 0.83 °C higher than the 20th century average. This marine heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 23°C in the North Atlantic, does not therefore come as a complete surprise to scientists, who know that the oceans absorb 90% of the heat generated by the greenhouse effect.

But the localization of this phenomenon surprised the experts. “Such temperature anomalies are unknown in this part of the North Atlantic”underlines Daniela Schmidt, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, quoted by the British Science Media Center.

“What’s surprising is that it’s extremely fast”also supports Jean-Pierre Gattuso, research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and co-editor of a report by the IPCC (UN climate experts).

The European marine heatwave continues to break through the ceiling. It is rated ‘extreme’ (category 5) by NOAA throughout Scotland. Yesterday the temperature of the North Atlantic reached 23.05 °C (an anomaly of +1.22 °C).
In June there is no precedent. From far away. pic.twitter.com/IaSGsake9h

— dr Serge Zaka (Dr Zarge) (@SergeZaka) June 19, 2023

What is its origin?

Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this extreme phenomenon, such as the reduction in wind-blown Saharan dust or the reduction in sulfur emissions from ships, two types of aerosols that usually have a cooling effect on the atmosphere. But “it remains at the hypothetical stage,” estimates Jean-Baptiste Sallée, oceanographer and climatologist at the CNRS.

As for the El Niño phenomenon, which warms the waters for six to nine months and occurs about every five years, it seems too underdeveloped to have an impact on the North Atlantic. “We expect more of an effect next spring,” explains Juliette Mignot, oceanographer at the IRD (Institute of Research for Development).

The researcher envisions a possible “change in ocean currents,” or meteorological phenomenon, that would overlay global warming. The origin of this marine heat wave therefore remains unclear for the time being.

What are the risks to biodiversity?

Whatever the origin of this heat wave in the sea, Scientists predict there will be a “mass extinction” of marine species, including corals and invertebrates. But these dramatic consequences, which take place under the water surface, will remain invisible.

According to Jean-Pierre Gattuso, during the heat waves in the Mediterranean, about fifty species (corals, gorgonians, sea urchins, molluscs, bivalves, posidonia, etc.) were affected by “massive deaths between the surface and 45 meters deep”. Co-author of an article on this topic. Other species migrate more toward the poles. “The waters of Norway and Iceland, for example, are becoming richer in fish,” to the detriment of the countries in the inner-tropical zone, according to the researcher.

By the end of the century In its most pessimistic scenario, the IPCC predicts a 50-fold increase in the frequency of these ocean heat waveswith episodes whose intensity is multiplied tenfold.

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