​​Tanks are moving through Lipetsk Oblast towards Moscow – Russian media

Military vehicles are proceeding along the M4 highway towards Moscow, the Russian media outlet Mediazona is reporting.

Source: Mediazona with a link to a video provided by a subscriber

Details: The video is reported to have been filmed in Lipetsk Oblast.

Several tanks and several covered trucks are visible in the convoy.

Previously: Russian Defence Ministry aircraft have struck the M4 Don highway, along which the Wagner vehicles are likely to be travelling. It was also reported that a Wagner convoy was attacked in Voronezh Oblast.

Background:

• On the evening of 23 June, Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed that the regular Russian army had launched a missile strike on the Wagnerites’ rear camps.Prigozhin claimed that Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Rostov, where he personally conducted an operation to wipe out the mercenaries.
• Prigozhin's 25,000 mercenaries are allegedly going to "restore justice". At the same time, he asked people not to call this a "military coup". Prigozhin added that Shoigu had fled Rostov like a coward and "this creature will be stopped". The Russian Defence Ministry called this information a provocation.
• Photos and videos of armoured vehicles on the streets of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don are being posted on Russian social media following Prigozhin’s statement about a de facto declaration of war against the Russian army. Checkpoints have been set up at entrances to Moscow.
• Prigozhin claimed that his mercenaries had shot down a Russian army helicopter.
• On the morning of 24 June, the headquarters of the Southern Military District in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don is surrounded by tanks and men in uniform. It is not known for certain who has surrounded the headquarters – Russian army servicemen or Wagner mercenaries.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is "fighting for survival" and that there are attempts to "organise a rebellion" in the country.
• On 24 June, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced that a "counter-terrorist operation regime" is in place in the Russian capital.
• Russian dictator Vladimir Putin called the self-proclaimed president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, on the morning of 24 June, and informed his Belarusian counterpart about the situation in Russia.
• Roads have begun to be blocked in Moscow Oblast.
• Reuters, citing a source in the Russian secret services, has reported that Wagner mercenaries have seized military facilities in the Russian city of Voronezh.

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