Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin told everyone not to travel within the city and asked people to limit movement
Post Date – Sat 23/24 at 11:59pm
London: All major outdoor events have been suspended in the Moscow region until July 1 due to the Wagner Private Military Company mutiny and reports that its personnel are heading to the Russian capital, according to media reports.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told everyone not to travel around the city and asked people to limit movement around the capital as rebels from the mercenary Wagner Group appear to be heading to the city, the BBC reported. advance.
The statement added that earlier in the day, life was normal, although security was tight and roadblocks were set up to check vehicles.
Some bridges were also closed.
“The situation is difficult,” Sobyanin said in a statement posted on Telegram.
Some roads or neighborhoods in the city may be closed to traffic, he added.
According to the BBC, Sobyanin had just issued a statement on Telegram announcing that “Moscow has announced the establishment of an anti-terrorism operation regime” and that Monday would be a “non-working day” to “minimize risk”.
He asked Muscovites to “refrain from traveling within the city as much as possible”.
“City services are on high alert,” he said.
Wagner mercenaries appear to be moving north from central Russia towards the capital, according to the BBC.
There has been relatively little verified information from the ground, but Wagner’s forces appear to be heading north toward Moscow, the report said.
This morning, Wagner’s mercenaries appeared in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don; later, it was reported that Wagner’s troops were in Voronezh, 560 kilometers to the north.
The governor of the Lipetsk region in northern Voronezh said Wagner’s forces were moving through the region, the BBC reported.
Moscow is located just 400 kilometers to the north. It was not immediately clear how many troops Wagner had at each location, or how large the troops seen in Lipetsk were.
