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The Wagner Group led an armed rebellion within Russia, dramatically expanding cracks between its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his former ally Russian President Vladmir Putin.

China supports Russia in maintaining its national stability, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on June 25, a day after an aborted mutiny by the Wagner group of heavily armed mercenaries.

Russians snapped up plane tickets to leave the country this weekend as mercenaries from the Wagner Group head toward Moscow, the capital, in a possible power grab.

The European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, says the bloc has activated its crisis center over the turmoil in Russia.

Three people were killed and more than a dozen injured in Ukraine after Russia fired missiles overnight into several cities.

Aleksander Gusev, the governor of Russia's Voronezh region, says more than 100 firefighters are working to put out a burning fuel tank at an oil depot.

Petar Petkovic, head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo, has accused Kosovar authorities of planting weapons found during a raid in the north, where tensions have been running high, on June 23.

The leader of the Wagner private mercenary troops, Yevgeny Prigozhin, says he has told his forces to immediately halt their procession to Mosow and return to their bases in Ukraine.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian mercenary group Wagner, told his forces to immediately halt their advance on Moscow and return to their camps as fears of a possible violent power struggle gripped the country.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he called on China to use its influence over Russia more in regards to the war in Ukraine.