the reason why this is possibly quite extraordinary is this is on the other side of the black sea, and apart, frankly of those waters, the kremlin must have thought months ago, literally were completely inaccessible to ukrainian attack drones, missiles, or anything, frankly. so we see this after the attacks on moscow s glass towers in the city district. months ago, the attacks on the kremlin itself as a real suggestion that moscow s own territory is certainly reachable by increasingly ingenius ukrainian devices. jim? we see reports of an attempt at a drone attack on an oil storage facility in crimea. do you notice as the attacks are playing out more and more on russian territory or russian occupied territory in ukraine that that is deliberate, as ukraine s ground counteroffensive has stalled? reporter: yeah, there s two things here i think there is
this wagner fighter. prigozhin posted a video from the city threatening to march on moscow. the mutiny rattled putin, the russian president condemned prigozhin on state tv as a traitor who stabbed the country and its people in its back. videos posted on social media tracked wagner s progress toward the city along with the failed attempts by the russian military to stop the mercenary group. this video allegedly shows a russian helicopter attacking an oil storage facility along the way while heavy equipment ripped up the highway to the capital, but with wagner knocking on moscow s door, the deal will now see those troops return to their bases. tonight, adriana, we re getting reports that ukraine is taking advantage of the chaos by stepping up its counteroffensive in the south and east. ian, thank you. so who is the leader of the wagner group?
appropriate. amid calls in russia for an overwhelming military response, ukraine s president, visiting finland, is distancing his country from the incident. we don t attack putin or moscow. we fight on our territory. we are defending our villages and cities. we don t have, you know, enough weapons for this. it s more likely a false flag operation, or local resistance in russia than ukrainian officials responsible for this. recent weeks and days have seen an upsurge in unexplained attacks inside russian territory. like this train derailment near the ukrainian border. or this key oil storage facility in southern russia near annexed crimea, set ablaze also using a
forces in russia, say ukrainian officials, that are responsible for this. in recent weeks, even days, have seen an upsurge in unexplained attacks inside russian territory. , like this train derailment in the bryansk region, near the ukrainian border. all of this key oil storage facility in southern region russia set ablaze also using the drone, causing significant disruption. one former russian lawmaker now in exile and linked with groups carrying out operations in russia tells cnn the kremlin attack is the work of what he calls russian partisans. some of them are focused on sabotage and some of them between our sons of military equipment some of them doing attacks on active activists, pro wore activists, some of them doing attacks.
and we can t really know where these things are, but this is clearly high stakes psychological pressure that one side is on that last point, the prospect of this could be coming from inside of russia, cnn s matthew chance spoke with a former lachine lawmaker who has been linked to militant groups in russia. he said, definitively, but this was the work of what he calls russian partisans. take a listen. some of them are focused on sabotage, some of them are doing arson. some are doing recruitment, some of them doing attacks on activists, some of them doing hacking attacks. we have seen, you know, attacks. somewhat serious attacks occurring inside of russia. in this bryansk region a train derailment. another one in a storage facility, in oil storage facility. so, clearly