- Movies present what seems to be Russian staff tearing up highways exterior Moscow.
- Wagner Group fighters have been advancing on Moscow since early Saturday.
- Tensions between Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and Russian army leaders have mounted for months.
Movies shared on social media seem to point out Russian staff utilizing development tools to tear up parts of the freeway as Wagner Group fighters proceed their march towards Moscow.
Samuel Bendett, an analyst for the Middle for Naval Analyses, a nonprofit army analysis group, mentioned one video reveals folks utilizing development tools to break a freeway between Lipetsk and Moscow.
—Samuel Bendett (@sambendett) June 24, 2023
One other photograph posted to a Russian Telegram channel reveals a photograph of what seems to be a freeway with a deep trench dug throughout the complete highway.
It is unclear who is working the development tools seen within the photos.
Wagner’s forces have to date confronted restricted resistance as they caravan towards Moscow. Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s chief and a former Putin ally, mentioned his troops captured a army headquarters in Rostov-on-Don “with out firing a single shot.”
Prigozhin launched his so-called “march for justice” on Friday after claiming, with out arduous proof, that Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered an air strike on Wagner forces in Ukraine. He mentioned that Wagner had broad help among the many folks of Russia, based on a translation of statements he made on Telegram.
In a speech on Saturday, Putin — with out naming Prigozhin — mentioned these chargeable for the mutiny have been responsible of “excessive treason.”
—Aric Toler (@AricToler) June 24, 2023
Russian safety forces arrange site visitors checkpoints with armed guards on Russia’s M4 freeway, which ends up in Moscow, on Saturday, based on Reuters.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin introduced that he had ordered Monday a “non-working day” in a Telegram message on Saturday. Sobyanin requested residents, apart from safety companies and different authorities, to chorus from shifting across the metropolis.