Residents of Rastavandan looked as one mercenaries from Wagner private military group took over a main street in the southern Russian city on June 24th after the rebellious Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigason said had taken control .
In an attempt to ask the military leadership Prigason demanded that Russia defense minister Sergey Shoigu and Valerie Jarazimov the chief of the generak staff who he has pledged ot oust over what he says is their disastrous leadership of the war against Ukraine come to see him in Rostov a city near the Ukrainian border.
He had earlier said that he had 25 thousands fighters moving towards Moscow to restore justice and had alleged without providing evidence that the military had killed a huge number of fighters from his Wagner private militia in a air strike , something the defense minister denied .
One Russian security source told Reuters Wagner fighters had also taken control of military facilities in the city of Voronezh which is about 500 km . 310 miles south of Moscow . Reuters could not independently confirm that assertion or many of the details provide by Prigason .
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