AGI – The head of the paramilitary Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, says he is at the Russian army headquarters in the city Rostov, key center for the Moscow army’s attack on Ukraine and to have captured control of military sites, including one Airport.
“We are at headquarters,” he said in a video broadcast on Telegram, “i.e. H military sites are from Rostov under control, including the airport,” he adds as they walk behind him men in uniform.
Ready to die for the Russian people
Prigozhin further confirmed that his strength of 25,000 men She was “ready to die” when she 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 die for the Russian people”.
The tension is very high. All public events planned for the weekend in Rostov-on-Don have been canceled, Rostov region governor Vasily Golubev said, according to the RIA Novosti website.
In Moscow it was closed the visitors the red squareThe Lenin’s mausoleum and the necropolis near the Kremlin wall in Moscow. The Russian state news agency TASS confirmed that overnight Fly Security measures were taken after the leader of the paramilitary group Wagner called for an uprising against the Russian military command.
“In Moscow, security measures have been tightened, the most important locations are subject to increased security,” as well as “state organs and transport infrastructure,” an unidentified official of the security forces told TASS.
The Wagner group crossed the Russian border near Rostov
In the night the leader of the mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had announced that his private army had crossed the Russian border and invaded the Rostov region in the south of the country. “We have crossed the national border everywhere. The border guards came out and hugged our fighters. We are now entering Rostov,” he said in an audio recording published on his Telegram channel.
Prigozhin, rebelling against the Russian military command, promised it “go all the way“And to “destroy everything that gets in his way,” and claims that his troops have entered Russian territory. “We’re going on, we’re going all the way,” he said in an audio message on Telegram after announcing that his troops, stationed in Ukraine, “have (…) crossed the border of the Russian state.” Prigozhin claims he has 25,000 fighters.
The Russian prosecutor opens a rebellion case
Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov reported to the Russian President Vladimir Putin on opening a criminal case about attempting to organize an armed uprising. According to media reports, this was stated by the press secretary of the Russian head of state, Dmitry Peskov.
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“The Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Krasnov reported to Putin in connection with the initiation of a criminal case in connection with an attempt to organize an armed uprising,” Peskov said.
Biden informed about the situation in Russia
The White House is monitoring the situation in Russia following the uprising of the paramilitary Wagner group against the Russian general staff. A spokesman said so and added US President Joe Biden is kept informed. “We are monitoring the situation and will be discussing these developments with our allies and partners,” said Adam Hodge, spokesman for the White House National Security Council.
Putin follows the developments of the rebellion
The Russian President Vladimir Putin is “continuously informed” of developments following the announcement of an armed uprising by the leader of the paramilitary group Wagner.
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The Kremlin reports it. “The special services, law enforcement agencies, namely the Defense Ministry, the FSB (security services), the Interior Ministry and the National Guard, continuously inform the President about the measures taken to implement their issued instructions,” Presidential spokesman Dmitry Das told Peskov to Russian news agencies.
Ukraine is preparing an offensive against Bakhmutovsky
Kyiv would concentrate several brigades into oneOffensive in the Bakhmutovsk Tactical Directoratey, taking advantage of the provocation of Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to Russian media reports, the Ministry of Defense announced this. Meanwhile, air raid alerts are sounding across Ukraine, according to online map data from Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation. The alert in the Cherkassy, Volyn, Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Ivano-Frankov, Zakarpattia, Rivne and Chernivtsi regions was announced between 2.20 a.m. and 2.3 a.m.
Ukraine’s anti-aircraft defenses are deployed in Kiev, and explosions can be heard in Kharkiv. The authorities of both cities reported it. “The air defenses in the capital are working,” Kiev’s military administration said on Telegram. “Explosions can be heard in Kharkiv,” said Igor Terekhov, mayor of the country’s second largest city.
The Wagner group shoots down a Russian military helicopter
The leader of the paramilitary group Wagner said his forces shot down a Russian military helicopter. “A helicopter just opened fire on a column of civilians, it was shot down by Wagner’s units,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin a new audio messageor without specifying the place of the accident.
The commander blamed the Russian chief of staff and Deputy Minister of Defense Valery Gerasimov that he had ordered an airstrike “in the middle of civilian cars”. Cnn reports it. “The General Staff camp,” said Prigozhin, “just gave the order to take off the planes and open fire on the columns of civilian cars and trucks.”He doesn’t care who he kills – he added – for a year and a half they have been killing civilians instead of fighting the enemy”. Prigozhin praised the Russian pilots for their “refusal to obey orders”.
Rostov governor to citizens: “Stay at home”
The governor of the Rostov region, which is currently under attack by the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, has called on citizens to keep calm and keep their mouths shut at home. “Prosecution – stressed in a message on Telegram Wassily Golubev – They do everything they can to ensure the safety of the area“. The head of Wagner, Evgeny Prigozhin, confirmed the uprising against the Kremlin and said that he entered the Rostov region, but from the message from Governor Golubev it is not clear whether Prigozhin really entered the city.
The Wagner-Putin duel for the USA had been expected since January
It’s been since the beginning of January The 007 USA had news of a possible internal conflict between the Russian paramilitary group Wagner and the Kremlin. Cnn reports it. High-ranking US government officials had identified tensions between Moscow and Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.
US intelligence expected an escalation in the months that followed. Also in January, a senior White House official revealed that Wagner was becoming a “rival center of power vis-à-vis the Russian Army and other Russian military officials.” According to American 007 reports at the time Prigozhin pursued his own interests in Ukraineinstead of following the Kremlin’s instructions.
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