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"All the key facilities in Voronezh have also been taken under control by Wagner PMC, as in Rostov, a source close to the central office of the Russian Federal Security Service has confirmed to the BBC Russian Service.
❗️❗️Russian aviation strikes on the M-4 highway used by Wagner PMC fighters - Russian military correspondents report
We are waiting for visual confirmation [as of around 11:14 Moscow time]
"Wagner" aims to reach Moscow - British intelligence
They believe that the demarche of the Wagner PMC is the most serious challenge to the Russian state, and the next few hours will be key in determining how this crisis will develop
❗️Putin continues to call CSTO members. He called Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Kazakh President Tokayev.
CSTO military alliance implies the deployment of military contingent to countries upon request if necessary - The Moscow Times
Putin himself called his Kazakh counterpart, but Tokayev said that Prigozhin's rebellion is an internal matter of Russia.
This was stated by Kazakhstan's channels.
❗️❗️The insurgents successfully passed Voronezh and are advancing through the Lipetsk region. They boast that they have shot down advanced "Rosgvardiya" outposts and taken trophies - Igor Strelkov (Girkin)
It is important to understand that the strike on the oil depot in Voronezh, Russia, was carried out by the Russian army. It is not Ukrainian UAVs, DRGs or partisans. It is the Russian army hitting Russian territory.
Civilians in Rostov are bringing food and beverages to Wagner fighters.
Russian publics report two strikes on occupied Henichesk and Skadovsk. The head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region, Saldo, again talks about strikes with Storm Shadow missiles - this time there were allegedly four of them. Probably, they hit military facilities.
🇨🇳 The Chinese state-owned company Poly Technologies sent large batches of gunpowder to Russia at least twice in 2022 to produce ammunition, The New York Times reports. (www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/business/economy/china-russia-ammunition.html)
The gunpowder, which would be enough to make at least 80 million rounds of ammunition, was sent by rail to the Barnaul Cartridge Plant in central Russia.
Markov, Russian propagandist, calls the events of tonight "provocations of British intelligence." [Not Satan?]
⚡️⚡️⚡️Yevgeniy Prigozhin said that Russian troops shelled the rear bases of the Wagner PMC. The social network has already published videos allegedly from the site of the attack.
❗️Russian Defense Ministry says reports of a missile strike on Wagner camps is an "information provocation"
General "Armageddon" Surovikin published a video calling Wagner to "obey the Supreme Commander".
"Wagner's PMC has taken control of all military facilities in Rostov, including the airfield. Prigozhin says he did this to avoid air strikes by the Russian army.
- The exits from the city were blocked in Rostov, and people were urged not to go outside.
- A counterterrorism operation was introduced in Moscow and the Voronezh region.
Kadyrov releases a statement, saying that Prigozhin has stabbed Russia in the back and that Kadyrov has sent Chechen soldiers to fight against the Wagner Group [did he promise the fighters that Wagnerites are secretly goats in disguise?]
🇵🇱Polish President Duda said he held consultations with the prime minister and the head of the country's Defense Ministry, as well as with allies in connection with the situation in Russia - Reuters
While people were watching Russian TV channels, Prigozhin suddenly appeared on the TV and his speech began to play - Russian telegram channels.
Internet blocking has begun in the Russian Federation.
According to GlobalCheck, Russian Internet service providers have begun blocking access to Google.
Currently, only twenty-five percent of users in Russia have access to Google.
Meanwhile, banners urging people to join Wagner PMC are being pulled down in Russian cities. - Russian media
Imagine now the face of Peskov, who seriously announced (https://t.me/bazabazon/17087) to the whole country that his son is fighting in Wagner
Belarusian soldiers fighting for Ukraine say it’s for them to take control of Belarus.
🇨🇺🇷🇺 The Russians have reopened the Soviet spy center Lourdes in Cuba, in the suburbs of Havana, which was officially closed in 2001. An investigation by The Insider claims (https://theins.ru/politika/262717) that its main task was to spy on the United States.
"Listeners" from the GRU and graduates of universities related to rocketry, computer science, and exact mathematics are secretly transferred to the island under the guise of diplomats. There are already intelligence officers on the island who specialize in electronic intelligence.
They can intercept data from American communications satellites, telephone conversations, messages from NASA's mission control center, and much more.
Earlier, Western media reported (https://www.wsj.com/articles/cuba-to-host-secret-chinese-spy-base-focusing-on-u-s-b2fed0e0) that China was opening an intelligence base in Cuba. The goals are the same: to spy on the United States. Official Beijing denies it.
Street webcams stopped working in Rostov-on-Don.
The website of online broadcasts says "access to broadcast temporarily denied."
In Russia, the search query "civil war" has sharply increased and overtaken "SMO"
After the attack on the Chongar Bridge, which connects occupied Crimea with mainland Ukraine, the "governor" of the Kherson region, Volodymyr Saldo, said that the Chongar bridge was damaged "much more seriously than initially thought": the bridge will be closed for the next 15-20 days, and the damage will be assessed. The Russians have built a pontoon ferry. The satellite image was published by the Schemes project. It shows traces of shelling.
Telegram is unstable
Telegram users in Europe (DC2) complain about slow performance of the messenger, sometimes media is not loaded and voice messages are not sent.