thanks so much. you ve been monitoring this. what is happening in russia? some back and forth. matthew and over ren just elaborated on some very important factors. first of all, you can never believe what comes out of russia. there is always an element of what they call moskorovka, a deception effort to fool the enemy into thinking they re doing something they re not. there are also indicators. we re seeing military vehicles loggering, forming groups within red square. increasing the security around the moscow region itself. you re also seeing on channels some firefights going on in the province of rostov, which is, as oren said, to the southeast, just over the border from ukraine. this is where prigozhin said he was going to go with his forces, and he also said his forces were attacked by helicopters when they were in a column going into that oblass in russia.
with ukraine, and according to prigozhin he s trying to enter the city of rostov. what we re not seeing are credible reports of any clashes between the russian army and wagner mercenaries. that does not appear to be happening at the moment in time. so you don t have reports of that activity, as you say vitaly, 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 seriously? theres that and also the fact that two senior generals have made appeals to wagner and these videos are also circulating on russian
too far. and, this very, very dangerous, very emotional, very violent leader of wagner. yevgeny prigozhin, said enough is enough. and we are taking my force, which he estimates a 25,000 men, and i am not just going to not use them to fight in ukraine, i am going back into russia and i m going to get rid of these defense officials, who killed his men allegedly. specifically gerasimov and show you. and he said he is going to march toward crossed a, raw stuff is the city where the war in ukraine is being organized from. it s the seat of the southern command, and to moscow. so russian troops, according to russia s accounts, have set up defensive positions in moscow to prevent this rogue mercenary force from coming in and attacking the city. and setting up perimeter around the city of rostov. they are accusing him, the russian intelligence service is accusing him of trying to stage a coup. he denies that he is trying to stage a cue, he says that this is merely an act of justice that his men
the city of rostov. they are accusing him, the russian intelligence service is accusing him of trying to stage a coup. he denies that he is trying to stage a cue, he says that this is merely an act of justice that his men are going back to try and eliminate the traders within the kremlin who are trying to undermine the war. and he said that the war itself is going away from its initial aims. the initial aim of the war was to pacify or d the russian propaganda that the country and he said it is not that anymore. it is simply about these top levels top officials in the ministry of defense, using this conflict in order to get more stars on their uniforms to seek promotions, to serve their interest. so we are talking about a
this is where prigozhin said he was going to go with his forces, and he also said his forces were attacked by helicopters when they were in a column going into russia. but rostov is about 200 miles away from moscow. so you don t create a coup outside of a capital city where putin is and holding court. but this comes at a horrible time. all afternoon long, you ve seen russian generals get on telegram channels saying prigozhin, don t do what you re doing right now. it s going to be harmful to what we do. you now see the map of rostov outside the border of ukraine. and, again, to the northeast of that is the capital of moscow. it would take a long time for prigozhin and his troops to do something within the capital city where a coup is normally formulated. but you have all these generals, russian generals on telegram channels today saying, prigozhin, don t do this. it s only going to hurt our