The anti-terrorist operation continues this Sunday in the Moscow region and its surroundings, despite the fact that the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has announced an agreement that stops the march of his troops towards the Russian capital.
Several patrols of the police forces remained stationed along the main highway out of Moscow, in the south of the capital, said a journalist from the AFP news agency.
In the Moscow region, movement restrictions were maintained this Sunday on the highway between Moscow and Rostov -where on Saturday the paramilitaries of the Wagner group took control of the military headquarters-, according to a statement from the Avtodor agency, responsible for Roads in Russia.
The National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAK) ordered this Saturday a “regime of anti-terrorist operations” in Moscow and its surroundings, as well as in the Voronezh region, bordering Ukraine, after Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the march of his fighters towards the Russian capital. .
This anti-terrorism regime gives greater powers to the police, namely to carry out operations. Thus, important sections of the highway connecting Rostov and Moscow were blocked and operations were carried out to verify identity and vehicles.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, decreed that Monday will be a day off, given the “difficult” situation.
The head of the Wagner paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, suspended this Saturday the rebellion movements in Russia against the military command, less than 24 hours after having occupied Rostov, a key city in the south of the country for the war in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called the group’s action a rebellion, saying it was a “deadly threat” to the Russian state and treason, guaranteeing he would not allow a “civil war” to break out.
At the end of the day on Saturday, when the advance of Wagner’s forces was reported to some 200 kilometers from Moscow, Prigozhin announced that he had negotiated an agreement with the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko.
Earlier, the head of the paramilitary group accused the Russian army of attacking his mercenary camps, causing “a very high number of casualties,” accusations that expose deep tensions within Moscow’s forces over the offensive in Ukraine.
Source: TSF
