way towards the city. earlier today, that group seized control of military headquarters in a southern key russian city. they are now on a northern track towards the capital city of moscow. about halfway. this is also a view for you this morning, moscow s mayor, just moments ago, saying a counterterrorism operation declared in the city, in moscow. this is canceling the workday, it is asking people to stay home. obviously not a common situation or request. also new for you at 12 pm eastern in new york city, vladimir putin mobilizing troops in an address to the nation vowing to crush what he calls an armed rebellion. this rebellion led by the group s leader, yevgeny prigozhin. whose forces, up until the past couple of days, we re fighting alongside russia in ukraine. today, not that day. not that way. on friday, prove goshen accused the kremlin of invading ukraine on false pretenses. putin today vowing to punish anyone who takes up arms against a russian military. that s last 24
minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russia s bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down protests and that sort of thing. and i say paid by russia, no longer as this group turns on russia. this happened about 18 hours ago when a fed-op, and prigozhin, the leader this have group often fought and criticized with generals and leaders back home at the defense ministry said enough is enough and making his fight in eastern ukraine in particular around the area that the russians on and off have control of, that might be in doubt given this craziness, but in part of the real nature of thi
paying them. greg palkot in kyiv, how this is going down. yeah, neil, the folks are watching this closely, a mas massive stake. and russias last 16 months issuing a brutal war against ukraine. in the last moments since we talked to you, developments. a geo location for where the leading edge of the wagner forces is, and accord to go a couple of reports, it s 250 miles away from moscow, it s on this m-4 highway, that connects rostov-on-don to moscow. it s gone through a couple of communities. and they seem to be going forward. what we don t have, neil, is an exact number of vehicles, number of troops, types of vehicles. frankly, we re discussing it. if i was an advisor, and i m
problem between mr. prigozhin and the leadership in moscow is not new. this has been playing out ever since the battle for bakhmut, where he said he wasn t being appropriately supported, and his soldiers were die because russians military leadership was not giving him what his soldiers needed. so this, this skirmish of leadership has been going on. but this, this last 24 hours, where mr. prigozhin has actually taken military action against russian forces, that is a very quick and hard-hitting affair. and so it is moving quickly. there are rumors now that a nether large city, to the north of rostov-on-don has been taken. and that there is fighting in the outskirts of that city, where it intersects with this very important road, the and for. may i just say, two things should not escape us. one, this is a big problem for
non working. this is because according to the mayor, concerns about the counter terrorism operations that are happening, or expected to happen in the next 24, 48 hours. that s why we re watching these live pictures on the left-hand side in moscow. that timeline, now seven, the sun has not set there. thank you so much matt wagner. next for you, the world leader, who has put an ear on advice he just gave the russian president. ssia president. k. so caramel swirl is always there for the taking. frustrated by skin tags? dr. scholl s has the breakthrough you ve been waiting for. the first fda-cleared at-home skin tag remover clinically proven to remove skin tags safely in as little as one treatment. bug spray works best.