2023-06-25 20:55:15
About fifteen houses and more than 10,000 m2 of roadway were damaged during the armed rebellion of the Wagner group in Russia, local authorities announced on Sunday, giving a first partial assessment of these events which shook Russian power.
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Between Friday evening and Saturday evening, the leader of the Wagner group, Evguéni Prigojine, whose men are fighting in Ukraine, led a spectacular armed rebellion on Russian soil which aimed to overthrow the military command with which he has been in open conflict since several months.
With his fighters, the businessman took control of the city of Rostov (south) and his convoy crossed several regions, to the point of approaching a few hundred kilometers from Moscow, causing amazement in Russia and the stranger.
In the Voronezh region, bordering Ukraine and stage of this abortive march towards the Russian capital, “19 houses were damaged in the village”, said Sunday on Telegram the head of the district of Pavlovsky.
The Russian authorities have people digging up the roads leading to Moscow in an attempt to stop the advance on the city by the Wagner Group.
— Visegrad 24 (@visegrad24) June 24, 2023
This damage took place “following a clash that took place near Elizavetovka, in the Pavlovsky district, on June 24, when a column of the Wagner group crossed our region”, he said. precise.
The local official thus confirmed that the convoy of Wagner’s men had clashed in the area with the regular army, without giving further details on the hostilities.
Neither Wagner nor the Russian army have at this stage officially communicated on possible victims linked to these clashes.
In Rostov, where the Wagner group occupied a military headquarters in the city center on Saturday, “more than 10,000 m2 of pavement” were damaged, according to the mayor, Alekseï Logvinenko.
In photos he posted on his Telegram channel, you could see traces of tanks having damaged the road.
“Teams will start repairing the damage today. All the work is scheduled to be completed in two days,” said the manager.
After an agreement reached on Saturday evening between Mr. Prigojine and the Kremlin, following the mediation of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Wagner’s fighters withdrew from Rostov. On Sunday, they continued their withdrawal from the regions they had invested.
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