there s increased security in moscow with what s being called anti terror measures the m4 motorway which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov ,is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. the kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president vladimir putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. here s mr putin s television address to the russian nation. translation: any actions that split us is a betrayal of your people, - a betrayal of the comrades that are fighting on the front line, a knife in the back of our people. this struck russia in 1917, when russia was waging the first world war, victory was stolen from us. politicking behind the back of the army and the people turned into huge upheaval, the destruction of the army and the state. the loss of huge territories. as a result, it was tragedy, russian killing russians, c
but in the last day of cause and with prigozhin now pretty openly challenging the very basis of the war itself, so that challenges put in terms of criticising defence minister shoigu and chief of general staff gerasimov for the war. but this is mr putin s war and there is no escaping from the fact that what prigozhin essentially is doing is criticising both the decision to go to war and the conduct of the war. on that basis, on the basis that so much of this is on president putin s shoulders, he did not lead the troops but he sent them into ukraine, do you think that this will ultimately be his undoing? it is too earl to ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how this ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how this ends, - ultimately be his undoing? it is too early to predict how this ends, but| early to predict how this ends, but i think w
you re watching bbc news, we are bringing you the latest on the situation in pressure. in russia. in the last few minutes, the prime minister rishi sunak has been asked about the situation in russia. he s been talking to the bbc s laura kuenssberg. do you think this might be a coup against vladimir putin? tote do you think this might be a coup against vladimir putin? do you think this might be a coup against vladimir putin? we have been monitorin: against vladimir putin? we have been monitoring for against vladimir putin? we have been monitoring for a against vladimir putin? we have been monitoring for a while against vladimir putin? we have been monitoring for a while the against vladimir putin? we have been monitoring for a while the potential i monitoring for a while the potential impacts and we are keeping a close eye on the situation as it is evolving on the ground and we are in touch with our allies and there will be speaking to some later today, but the most important
that no one votes against vladimir putin. the military report is that the situation is very dangerous. wagner control something from about ten to 20,000 soldiers. most of them now are in rostov city, a very big city with more than i million inhabitants. i ve been there many times. we know also that the wagner group is very professional in fighting which we know from the case in back boot. to fight against 20,000 mostly professional soldiers of wagner in rostov, the russian army need to take from the ukrainian front, something like more than
the nation early this morning. these pictures released form the wagner military group purport to show ngeny prigozhin with armed men in rostov. wagner say these pictures are taken at the southern military district headquarters in rostov and that he is arguing with deputy defence minister yunus bek yevkurov and general vladimir alexeyev. the bbc is unable to verify the location of these pictures. our reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom monitoring developments. just bring it up to date with what has happened so far this morning. i m going to bring you up to date with some of the international reaction that has been coming in. within the last half an hour or so we ve had a very brief statement from the nato military alliance which says they are monitoring the situation, as you would imagine. that is the message from a lot of european capitals, monitoring the situation coming out of france and germany. the german also there