Russia Wagner Group: A Wagner group truck seen transporting a tank on highway linking Moscow earlier.
Russia accused the head of the powerful mercenary group Wagner of mounting an armed uprising and ordered his arrest as the growing animosity between rival Kremlin camps over the war in Ukraine spilled into open conflict.
The Wagner group chief said they are stopping their advance to Moscow to avoid “spilling blood”. He had vowed Saturday to take all necessary steps to topple the country’s military leadership in Moscow, saying his forces would “destroy everything” in their way.
“We are going onwards and we will go to the end,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said in a new audio message after vowing to sideline Russia’s military leadership.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin earlier claimed his fighters captured the army HQ in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don “without firing a single shot” and claimed to have the support of locals. The Wagner group was said to be “moving across” Lipetsk, a town 400 km south of Moscow, but stopped their movement 200 km away from the capital city.
“A Wagner column left Rostov and headed to their field camps,” governor Vasily Golubev said on Telegram. On Saturday they seized control of a key military base there.
“The President of Belarus informed the President of Russia in detail about the results of negotiations with the leadership of PMC Wagner,” Lukashenko’s press service said in a statement, adding Putin “thanked his Belarusian colleague.”
Latvia is closely following the developing situation in Russia and exchanging information with allies
Border security has been strengthened, visa or border entry from Russians leaving Russia due to current events won’t be considered
No direct threat to Latvia at this time
Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 24 June 2023.
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