Russian channel DONTSTOPWAR reports that a 50km long Wagner-column has crossed the Novoshakhtinskaya border checkpoint into Russia reportedly heading for Novocherkassk (towards Rostov-on-Don).
The column itself has not yet been visually confirmed.
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It's not just the FSB now: Russia's Prosecutor General has also charged Prigozhin with "organizing an armed insurrection." He faces up to 20 years in prison.
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Again none of the above is confirmed.
I think we can confirm the Wagner column(s) now.
In the video Surovikin is holding a sub machine gun on his lap.
Russian 1st Deputy chief of the GRU just gave a speech, from the exact same chair that General Surovikin and his sub machine gun spoke from.
Waiting for the translation, but he is addressing Wagner.
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Can confirm that Russian National Guard have set up road blocks in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
They aren't putting people of that rank on video if nothing is happening.
Video of GRU, FSB, and Russian National Guard vehicle columns rolling through Moscow and setting up roadblocks.
Russia's TV Channel 1 announces an "Emergency news release coming soon".
Nothing else yet. Just an announcement of an impending announcement.
Russia 1's emergency announcement of an impending emergency announcement turned out to be more of the same.
But it also included a full court press on Prigozhin.
He's toast.
Meanwhile video is appearing of forces loyal to Putin blocking roads in Moscow.
Not sure what Russian MoD is talking about here. Neither of those brigades are at Bakhmut.
Ukrainian 35th Marine brigade is at the tip of the Mailed Fist on the southern front. 36th Marine brigade is on the eastern front NW of Donetsk city.
There is no 36th mech brigade in the Ukrainian army.
I do hope that Russian military "intelligence" really as that stupid.
Wagner claiming that the Russian air force was ordered to bomb Wagner's "columns" heading for Russia, and that the pilots refused.
Still no evidence or confirmation that those columns exist.
Meanwhile Russian missiles are still being fired at Ukrainian cities.
Prigozhin claims that Wagner has entered Rostov No confirmation yet.
Russian Special Forces creating roadblocks on all roads northbound out of Rostov might count as a confirmation, but one never really knows with Russia.
Apparently Wagner has been trying to get former employees to rejoin Wagner.
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Russian Internet is going dark.
Prigozhin is being scrubbed from the Russian internet.
Vkontakte posts blocked. Search results for Prigozhin on Yandex blocked.
Multiple videos of Russian National Guard trucks heading south into the city of Rostov-on-Don. (confirmed)
Still no video of any Wagner columns anywhere.
Rostov-on-Don is the primary logistics hub inside of Russia for all Russian forces operating on the Southern front and in Crimea.
If the city falls to Wagner there will be no more Southern front in Ukraine and Russian occupation of Crimea will end shortly thereafter.
Assuming Wagner is actually heading there at all.
Two new videos.
1: Supposedly a stopped Wagner column west of Rostov firing on a Russian helicopter. If its real, they missed, with a heat seeker.
2: Apparent firefight between a stopped Wagner column and Russian National guard.
Unsure if both are from the same column or if there really is more than one Wagner column. Although the firefight video has been geolocated it's still difficult to tell who is firing on whom.
Two more videos, these apparently confirming Wagner columns in multiple heading for Rostov-on Don.
1: Includes a tank on its transport truck and several of Wagner's MRAP style vehicles.
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2: Includes at least one BMP-3 and is very definitely Wagner (no Z, V, or O markings).
The presence of the tank and the BMP-3 are indicators that either Wagner had more armor than previously known about, or the vehicles were stolen, or...
At least one Russian regular army formation has joined Wagner.
Daylight videos starting to appear from Rostov-on-Don.
Russian helicopter gunships hovering over the city.
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Yeah, that's Wagner, with Russian army tanks, and FSB OMON troops watching them drive around a roadblock made out of busses.
We have confirmed videos of Wagner forces in the center of Rostov-on-Don. Their tanks guns pointed at the Russian Army Southern District headquarters and a stand off between Wagner infantry and Russian National Guard in front of the building.
These are *not* Wagner's ex-cons. These are Wagner's ex-Russian Special Forces guys, heavily armed, experienced pros.
The tanks were not Wagner's originally, but they certainly are now.
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