- Wagner boss Prigozhin says his forces are stopping their march on Moscow to avoid bloodshed
- Wagner paramilitary forces were earlier driving north on the main highway towards Moscow, where new security measures had been put in place, and local residents were told not to travel.
- The Kremlin accused the boss of private paramilitary company Wagner of attempting to stage a coup.
- Yevgeny Prigozhin insisted his forces were "patriots" who had the support of the Russian people.
- Prigozhin said his Wagner troops captured the Russian army HQ in Rostov-on-Don without firing a shot
- In a speech to the nation, Vladimir Putin described Wagner's actions as a "stab in the back."
- Ukraine's President Zelenskyy says that in Russia there's "so much chaos, no lie can hide it". Read more at:
- https://www.euronews.com
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