Mercenaries from PMC Wagner freely entered the Voronezh region

24 June, 2023 Russian soldiers at the Buhaivka border crossing in the Voronezh region Mercenaries from the private military company Wagner freely crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border in the direction of Voronezh on June 24. According to the Telegram channels affiliated with the PMC, the machinery entered through the Buhaivka border crossing.

At the same time, 180 Russian security forces from the garrison of the border checkpoint did not interfere with the mercenaries. PMC Wagner mercenaries published photos of unarmed representatives of various law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation. They were arranged in line, their status is unknown.

Unarmed Russian security forces on the border with Ukraine in the Voronezh region

Also, the videos have been published on social networks with the alleged passage of a military convoy on the outskirts of Voronezh.

Russian telegram channels report that the convoy contains BM-21 Grad MLRS. Reuters news agency, citing its own sources, reports on the seizure of military facilities in the regional center. There is no visual confirmation of this at the time of publication of the news on the network.

As previously reported, on June 24, PMC Wagner blocked the city of Rostov-on-Don. Mercenaries took control of the headquarters of the Southern Military District, the directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, as well as the military airfield Millerovo.

The leader of the PMC Wagner, oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, demands to give him the Russian military leadership.

Russian President Putin gave the order to neutralize the PMC Wagner mercenaries.

The FSB of the Russian Federation qualifies Prigozhin's actions as an organization of an armed rebellion.