Reuters has reported that Russian military helicopters opened fire on Saturday afternoon on a convoy of rebel mercenaries already more than halfway towards Moscow in a lightning advance after seizing a southern city overnight.
According to the site, President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush an armed mutiny he compared to Russia's Civil War a century ago.
“Fighters from Yevgeny Prigozhin's private Wagner militia were in control of Rostov-on-Don, a city of more than a million people closes to the border with Ukraine, and were rapidly advancing northwards through western Russia,” Reuters said in its publication
