Coup in Russia, Russians shoot at Russians in Voronezh – Libero Quotidiano

2023-06-24 14:03:00

Russian army helicopters have opened fire on a convoy of Wagner group which was traveling along the M4 motorway, out of the city of Voronezh, about 460 kilometers south of Moscow. The video, which was released on Twitter and went viral, is the plastic testimony of the “civil war” triggered by Evgeni Prigozhinthe head of Wagner’s private militia, engaged in Ukrainewho announced an armed uprising against the Moscow regime on Friday evening.

After occupying Rostov, a key Russian military district on the border with Ukraine, without firing a shot, Prigozhin and his 25,000 soldiers “ready to die” headed for the capital Moscow. Violent firefights started on the directrix, with the Russian air force bombing Voronezh.

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The authorities of the region of Lipetsk they urged residents not to leave their homes unless absolutely necessary and not to travel by public and private means of transport. He brings it back there Tass which cites a post on Telegram from the regional authority. “To ensure law enforcement and order and safety of the citizens of the Lipetsk region, the operational headquarters of the region requests residents not to leave their homes in the absence of urgent need and to refrain from any travel by personal means or public”.

“It is not yet clear what exactly is happening” in the country, he admits to the agency Dire Andrej Kortunov, director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in Moscow since 2011 earlier this year. Today in Russia there are several commentators and observers who remain cautious, while firefights between army units and Wagner group paramilitaries have been reported in several regions, most recently in the city of Voronezh. Last year, after the start of the Moscow offensive in Ukraine, Kortunov said that no one was “innocent”. “I fear”, added the expert, “that the president Vladimir Putin did not calculate all the consequences of the military intervention, while the Nato could have agreed at least a moratorium on its enlargement to the east”.