Wagner Group Further Wagner units are moving north through Vorenezh Oblast, almost certainly aiming to get to Moscow. With very limited evidence of fighting between Wagner and Russian security forces, some have likely remained passive, acquiescing to Wagner.
⚡️Reported Wagner air defence in Buturlinovka⚡️
⚡️Local sources claim that a warplane was shot down over Voronezh a short while ago.⚡️
Russian forces and Wagner mercenaries are reportedly fighting one another on multiple fronts as affiliaties of Yevgeny Prigozhin claim that the “civil war has official begun”
Three military helicopters were shot down in the Voronezh region on Saturday morning (June 24), while eyewitness filmed members of the Wagner forces near an airfield in Buturlinovka, a small town to the south of the city of Voronezh, having been “worked on by army aviation”, according to local reports.
There is believed to be severe confusion among the Russian military ranks over “what to do with the PMCS”, according to one Russian military blogger.
We are patriots of our motherland. We, all the fighters of Wagner PMC, have fought and will fight on. And nobody is planning to hand themselves in on the orders of the president, FSB, or anyone else. Because we don’t want the country to live any longer under corruption, lies, and bureaucracy,” he added.
We are patriots, and everyone who is against us is gathering around a bunch of bastards.
Putin: We Will Defend our Country from Internal Treason
Vladimir Putin called the situation with the armed rebellion a stab in the back to the country and its people during his address to the nation Saturday:
📍Trying to push Russia to defeat and capitulation by rebellion – action against the rebels will be tough
📍Those who were tricked into treason should put down their arms
📍Uncontrolled personal ambitions have led to this
📍Whole western militarist, information machine is targeting Russia