which lies on the road to moscow. with wagner forces in control of rostov and apparently on the move. there have been reports, unconfirmed, of air strikes. for the moment, it s unclear how this crisis will be resolved and with what level of violence. gordon corera, bbc news. our correspondent andrew harding is in the donbas region of ukraine he told us about the reaction there to developments in russia. this morning we were out early on the front lines near bakhmut, this city that s been so pulverised by the russians who now occupy the city. the ukrainians though now launching fierce counter attacks and we are just back from those front lines, with, as you say, some ukrainian medics. everybody had heard the news from russia, everybody who is not directly involved in the fighting has been consuming, devouring this news, of the chaos in their enemy camp, and many people delighted, but i d also say quite cautious.
cited 1917 as an example of this which shows how seriously he is taking this, but it happened on that time and eventually extends into being a coup because how does this go back to normal? the russians are fighting each other, you have a third element of russians operating from ukraine who i m sure will exploit the situation, the ukrainians themselves, the best thing they can do is to tell the russians to give up fighting and come to their side because why would you die in defence of a resume that is falling apart from their point of view? the same happening in belarus. a lot of moving parts there and i think all unhinged by this, unless at this force is stopped, prigozhin is driven out of rostov and the entire wagner operators is dismantled, but currently there is no one who looks like they have the capability to do that. it could emerge. the army sitting it sitting it out and frankly busy fighting in ukraine. it had to stop doing that if it is going to intervene in this conflict and
hodges to bring us some military analysis on all of this. he joins us now. thank you very much forjoining us here on the programme. i am reading a fair bit where people are describing this as a cool, that if we look at what is happening right now, would it be fair to say this is, at this point of rebellion? it seems targeted initially towards shadow and harassing of. but where putin s responds is more and more to tell the military to destroy wagner. in wagner s responds, this looks more and more like a coup. i think they are going to see how it plays out with the population. because magna does not have enough to overthrow everything by themselves. they have got a military of about 25,000, how many of those 25,000 are actually subscribing to what
which we believe to be an oil depot in the area. our security correspondent gordon corera has this round up of the latest. a mutiny, perhaps even the start of a civil war. mercenaries belonging to the wagner group who d been fighting for russia in ukraine now appear to have seized control of the russian city of rostov on don. residents have been told to stay indoors. one took these pictures which have been confirmed by bbc verify. the head of the wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, posted a video said to be from this morning in which he appears outside the city s military headquarters, saying he s also taken control of the local airfield. and in another video, he appears arguing with two officials, one, the deputy defence minister. he demands to see the heads of the russian military with whom he s been engaging in a bitter public feud, claiming
as we ve been hearing, moscow s mayor has urged residents to limit travel and has imposed anti terrorism rules in the city. he as announced monday will be a nonworking day and asked people to restrict their movements around the city, the capital braces for possible repercussions of the wagner rebellion. earlier, russian authorities announced a quote countertenor stop operation in the city of moscow, the moscow region and their own leisure, and region to the south, giving authorities a number of special powers including restricting the movements of people and transport, monitoring or restricting communications, the right to search people and vehicles and evacuating the population if needed. but new bring in my college. that is from the moscow mayor, a number of powers, not a surprise given what has happened but