Fierce fighting is taking place in Voronezh today, as the Russian army and their Chechen allies try to stop Wagner’s fighters from advancing towards Moscow.

An anti-terror regime has been imposed in the Russian capital, and armored vehicles patrol the center, around the defense ministry and the lower house, the State Duma, a few tens of meters from the Kremlin.

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The Russian army is preparing fortifications at the entrance to Moscow and tanks are lined up along the main roads leading to the Russian capital.

Unconfirmed information has been circulating online for the past few hours that the Russian military is planning to blow up bridges on the Oka River south of Moscow to prevent Wagner fighters from entering the capital.

At the same time, Russian authorities announced that navigation on the Moskva River, which runs through the Russian capital, had been suspended.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said in a separate statement that no restrictions had been placed on the movement of cars and trucks entering and leaving the Russian capital, but noted that security checks had been strengthened.