ROSTOV-ON-DON, June 24 Military police vehicles appeared near the building of the headquarters of the Southern Military District, reporters from the scene report.< br />Earlier on Saturday, the press service of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko reported that Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted the proposal of the Belarusian leader to stop the movement of armed persons of Wagner PMC in Russia and take further steps to de-escalate. Correspondents reported that the fighters of the Wagner group, who were at the headquarters of the Southern Military District, began gathering and were going to leave.
Military police cars appeared at the intersection of Budennovsky Prospekt and Pushkinskaya Street, where the headquarters of the Southern Military District is located. Cars parked near the cluster of fighters of the Wagner group, no one gets out of the cars. The Wagner fighters themselves at this time are driving pickup trucks to the headquarters, into the back of which ammunition is being loaded. There are also civilians here.
On Saturday night in Rostov-on-Don, the headquarters of the Southern Military District was captured by the Wagner PMC. Groups of armed people moved around the city, checkpoints were set up at the entrances and exits. This happened against the backdrop of statements by Yevgeny Prigozhin about allegedly inflicted by the Russian Armed Forces missile and bomb attacks on the camps of PMC «Wagner» — this was refuted by both the Ministry of Defense and the FSB. A criminal case has been opened against Prigozhin for organizing an armed rebellion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called the actions of the rebels a criminal adventure, a stab in the back of Russia and treason, to which exorbitant ambitions and personal interests led. All those who embarked on the path of betrayal, blackmail and terrorist methods will suffer inevitable punishment, the RF Armed Forces have received the necessary orders, the head of state added.
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