translation: our actions to defend the fatherland from this threat will be harsh. everyone who consciously chose the path of treason and plan the armed uprising has embraced blackmail and terrorist methods. they will be inevitably punished before the law and our people. this is a huge headache now for the kremlin. not only is russia fighting a war in ukraine which hasn t gone to plan, it s now having to deal with an armed mutiny at home. and although mr prigozhin s criticism is directed mainly at the defence ministry, not the president, what is happening now is putting vladimir putin under enormous pressure. there are reports of wagner convoys heading north of rostov towards moscow. bbc verified geolocated these images in voronezh region. security has been tightened in the russian capital. it feels like the kremlin has been taken by surprise. i think it s a great embarrassment for the kremlin. prigozhin was putin s project.
military officials or says his fighters will march on the capital. in response, vladimir putin says russia is facing a battle for its future in the face of what he called an armed mutiny . hello, i m yalda hakim. officials in moscow are taking emergency measures as a convoy of wagner mercenaries appears to be heading for the russian capital. the city s mayor says anti terrorism rules are being imposed. he s urged people to avoid travelling. earlier vladimir putin said russia is facing a battle for its future as fighting broke out between wagner mercenaries and the russian military in the city of voronezh. look at these latest pictures from moscow, where the city is bracing itself for a tense night with heavy military deployed across town and checkpoints to filter through who comes in and out of the city. the head of the wagner mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin,
a city of a million people had woken to this. the sight of armed men and armour on the streets and tanks outside key buildings. in control here, the mercenary group wagner. closely linked to the state, they d fought for russia in ukraine, but this was mutiny. their leader, yevgeny prigozhin, had gone rogue. his feud with russia s military leadership over how the war is being fought had boiled over. at a military hq, he told russian generals, we ve come for the defence minister and the chief of the general staff. if we don t get them, i ll blockade the city and head to moscow. this was treachery, said the kremlin. a stab in the back of russia.
about little green man, people in military uniforms. it is accepted many of those little green men went on to become wagner fighters. this is the area we are talking about. 100 kilometres from the border is rostov on don, an important city because russia has used it as a sub and headquarters for its war in ukraine. a staging post before it sends its fighters in. yevgeny prigozhin said he was able to take that city without a single shot being fired. we saw the photos come in and take the city about this time yesterday. they moved north to the city of voroneszh, which wasn t easy. we went from not a single shot to report russian air strikes as they headed north on the mfor. the key thing about the city of voroneszh is it is halfway to
have not detected that and even when i was in a region a few months ago which was being shelled in people s lives were less secure, people were not joining lives were less secure, people were notjoining the dots and blaming the invasion of ukraine for their growing insecurity. a£111 growing insecurity. our correspondent - growing insecurity. our correspondent beaten i growing insecurity. our correspondent beaten to me earlier. speaking to me earlier. leaders across the world have been watching and monitoring the situation. us president biden said in a statement he spoke by phone with western leaders on the russian crisis including french president emmanuel macron, german chancellor olaf scholz and the uk prime minister rishi sunak. the leaders discussed the situation in russia, and they affirmed their unwavering support for ukraine. with western leaders on the russian crisis including french president emmanuel macron, german chancellor olaf scholz and the uk prime minister rishi