Wagner’s convoy is reportedly getting closer and closer to Moscow. Russian authorities are trying to build roadblocks with trucks to stop the mercenaries organization of Prigozhin on the central drive axles, but no organized resistance is discernible.

Earlier, the BBC confirmed as genuine video showing a phalanx of Wagner armored vehicles traveling on the M4 motorway, which connects Voronezh to Moscow via Lipetsk.

The governor of the Lipetsk region earlier asked residents to stay at home and avoid travel, either by public vehicles or public transport.

The leader of the mercenary organization boasted at noon that his fighters they didn’t have to fire a single bullet to seize control of the Russian army headquarters in the city of Rostov.

In a new audio message, he said his men had nevertheless come under artillery and helicopter fire en route to Rostov.

He emphasized that he believes he has the support of the Russian people in what he calls a “march for justice.”

Wagner veterans say they are waiting for Prigozhin’s order to join the uprising.

Moscow is fortified in fear of Wagner, but mostly members of the Russian Security Service (FSB), not the Russian military, appear

“we just want to go to Moscow, don’t try to stop us” a Wagner fighter sends a message to the Russian army.

Voronezh is located midway between Moscow and the southern Russian city of Rostov, where Wagner said early this morning that she had taken control of military infrastructure and was heading for the Russian capital.

Earlier today, a Russian security source also told Reuters that Wagner fighters had taken control of military installations in the city of Voronezh. Reuters was unable to independently verify this information.

Russian nationalists led by a former FSB officer said they would soon publish an action plan to respond to the Wagner mutiny.

The Russian nationalist group known as the “Indignant Patriots Club” said in a statement that a civil war could lead to in humiliating military defeat of the Russian military in Ukraine and warned that Russia is on the brink of destruction.

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.

Trenches are being dug in Moscow and bridges are being mined. pic.twitter.com/xuP3TtFPdr

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 24, 2023

The Russian military regime threatens to blow up the main bridges leading over the Oka River south of Moscow in case the insurgents move closer to Moscow.

It is remarkable that all the terror the Russian military was bringing to foreign countries has come home.#Russia #Coup pic.twitter.com/FP7X2D9AHZ

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) June 24, 2023

At the same time, Russian authorities announced that navigation on the Moskva River, which runs through the Russian capital, had been suspended. In Moscow, according to Ukrainian media, they are preparing to cut off access to the internet.

The mayor of Moscow, Mr Sergey Sobyanin stressed in a separate statement that no restrictions have been placed on the movement of cars and trucks entering and leaving the Russian capital, noting, however, that security controls have been strengthened.