Revolt in Russia. The Wagnerians wanted to hit Moscow with heavy weapons. They had tanks and launchers

The rebellious Wagner Group headed for Moscow on Saturday. The rebellion was put down, the troops were stopped, and the group’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin himself went to . During the march to Moscow, the rebel mercenaries killed 13 to 20 Russian military pilots. However, the situation could have escalated much more strongly, because the Wagnerians heading for the city had a large number of weapons and military vehicles with them.

Revolt in Russia. The Wagnerians had a thousand vehicles

More than a thousand pieces of equipment were to be transported by the Wagner Group in its march to Moscow – which refers to Baz’s telegram profile. The first column consisted of nine tanks, a Grad rocket launcher, a cannon, four Tigr armored vehicles, several dozen trucks and hundreds of passenger cars.

Another convoy left Voronezh on Saturday morning. 357 pieces of equipment were heading towards the military airfield in Buturlinovka. The third column was equipped with 100 pieces of equipment, including three , two anti-aircraft guns, buses, trucks and passenger cars. In the fourth and last column, 212 units of military equipment were transported.

Wagner Group coup in Russia

In a statement published on social media at the time, Yevgeny Prigozhin accused the Russian army of attacking the Wagnerian forces. As he said, the camp of his unit was to become the victim of a rocket attack carried out by Russian troops. Many soldiers were killed in the attack.

In subsequent messages, the head of the Wagner Group announced that he was moving towards Moscow. Prigozhin called the rebellion a “march of justice”. The forces under his command entered the Rostov region in southern Russia, adjacent to Ukraine, on the night of Friday and Saturday. The militants then entered Rostov-on-Don, where there were minor clashes with Russian forces, after which it was announced that the Wagner Group was in control of the city.

On Saturday, around 4 p.m. Polish time, representatives of the Wagner group announced that they could reach Moscow within two hours. After 7 p.m., the BelTA agency reported that the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenko, held talks with the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. As reported, “negotiations continued throughout the day.” “As a result, they came to an agreement on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on Russian territory,” we read. Yevgeny Prigozhin was said to have accepted Lukashenko’s proposal to stop the movement of Wagner Group armed persons in Russia and to take further steps to de-escalate tensions. The group’s mercenaries were also to receive security guarantees. The TASS news agency reported that the leader of the Wagnerians ordered his troops to retreat.