weekend s rebellion? an important question after we saw something rather daring in the city of rostov. russians to putin dismay cheering the rebellions leader. abc news in moscow with the latest on the situation there. we haven t heard from president putin or from prigozhin, the leader of that independent militia, the wagner group all day today. i have course their next moves may determine russia s future. this deal that was done yesterday where prigozhin s forces were on their way here to moscow where it was possible that i would be standing here now talking about russians fighting russians here in the streets of moscow. it appears to be that prigozhin will go to belarus to kind of exile and that those soldiers that were fighting with him and for him will sign up into the russian mainstream military. we all that play out the way
posted on social media in which it claims his forces have crossed into russia s southern region which is right on the border with ukraine and according to prigozhin is trying to enter the city of rostov. we are not hearing any claims of clashes between the motion that let russian military and wagner mercenaries. that does not appear to be happening at the moment. 50 appear to be happening at the moment. , ., appear to be happening at the moment, , ., ., appear to be happening at the moment. ,, ., ., moment. so you don t have re orts moment. so you don t have reports of moment. so you don t have reports of that moment. so you don t have reports of that activity - moment. so you don t have reports of that activity at i reports of that activity at this moment in time but the fact that russian authorities have moved troops into areas such as moscow for example, does that mean that they are taking these comments from prigozhin s sake! seriously? there is that are they taking com
the last 24 hours was a whole new level of escalation, where prigozhin is saying russian forces deliberately attacked a group of wagner fighters who were camped in the forest, and killed a large number of them. again, no clear verification, but what does seem clear is that these tensions have escalated to an entirely different level, a new category. and then what prigozhin allegedly said in these audio recordings that are difficult to verify was that he is now so furious, so livid, that he is taking his man, he is taking tens of thousands of them and he is going to rectify the situation himself by marching toward moscow, marching toward the city of rostov, he says it s not a coup, but then he wants to make sure that the people responsible for now
desperation in terms of the decisions that he is taking. the idea that he has entered russia itself is certainly plausible but we haven t seen any direct video of that nor have we seen reports of fighting against the russian military and certainly the russian military would be told at this point given that wagner headquarters have been raided by russian forces, to bring him in and to bring him tojustice if not to kill him. but we have to recognise that this is going on the same time as the ukrainian counteroffensive so the russian wagner forces which have been the most successful in fighting against the ukrainians are now no longer doing so. they are leaving their post. at the time of the ukrainian counteroffensive. a couple of things we should recognise the first of the potential for russian forces to fall apart is very real which
recordings that are difficult to verify was that he is now so furious, so livid, that he is taking his man, he is taking tens of thousands of them and he is going to rectify the situation himself by marching toward moscow, marching toward the city of rostov, he says it s not a coup, but then he wants to make sure that the people responsible for now consistently denying ammunition in support to his man, and then killing his man. the fsb, the russian intelligence service, says that this is a coup. numerous generals have called on his man directly not to obey these orders, but if this is playing out the way it seems