The UK's COBRA committee, which meets to formulate responses to emergencies, will convene to discuss the unfolding situation in Russia.Residents in next city on Wagner's route to Moscow told to stay indoorsSecurity concerns were cited in the Lipetsk region amid warnings the Wagner Group are making their way to Moscow.Explosion in Voronezh as governor reports oil depot blazeSeparately, its governor said more than 100 firefighters are tackling a burning fuel tank at an oil depot.
Wagner’s head Yevgeny Prigozhin has said the war effort goes on even though he has, it seems, taken control of one of its key headquarters in Rostov-on-Don. It is early days and nothing is quite what it seems in Russia but we can say for sure that this will undermine Russia's war effort, not least because thousands of its most effective fighters in the Wagner group appear to have left the theatre of war to launch an armed rebellion on home soil.
Ukrainians will be hoping for a protracted period of internal conflict that fatally undermines Russia's ability to fight this war or forces whoever ends up in charge in Moscow to bring it to an end.Rishi Sunak was relatively reserved, as most of Ukraine's allies have been, when answering questions on the events unfolding in Russia today.
His rhetoric over the past weeks against Russia's top military brass has grown ever more virulent and dangerous, and yet he has been allowed to continue unchecked. Quite what Prigozhin hopes to achieve is unclear. And how successful he will be depends on whether he has the capacity to bring other elements within the armed forces on side.
"For a long time, Russia used propaganda to mask its weakness and the stupidity of its government - and now there is so much chaos that no lie can hide it," said the Ukrainian president.