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M-4 motorway towards the capital. russian forces then erected it defensive positions and blockaded main roads and bridges along the route, that is before the order was given for the mercenaries to then stand down. we can now get more from diana magnay, who is in moscow. >> you do it wonder what it was that that mercenary column would or could have done once they got to moscow. would they have taken the defense ministry and key military installations here? what they have needed considerable support from security forces within moscow to do that? perhaps, yevgeny prigozhin failed to realize that ...

Military. yet more unprecedented mayhem is likely to follow. >> we just heard a loud bang at the headquarters of the military. >> reporter: you see a scene there from when blasts were heard in rostov and the reaction there from a reporter. continually signs that wagner forces are moving up the m-4 highway. lipetsk, the next town on from vorenezh, where you saw helicopters in what appeared to be clashes there, lipetsk is blocking some of the entries and exits and there are traffic restrictions on the next town up toward moscow. in the capital, military positions being set up. this is an absolut...

Began remarkably seizing the key southern town of rostov-on-don, we've seen their progress up the main highway, the m-4, through voronezh, about halfway up there, the governor now saying that there have been combat measures taken by the russian military. you're seeing now explosions from what looked like to be helicopter-based clashes over that particular city. a projection till landed there. state media showing glass has been blown out and an mi-8 attack helicopter made a hard landing in that particular area. then we have the next region, lupetsk, the governor saying the wagners are move, wag...

Where putin can accept what prigozhin has done and try and put the clock back. we've seen extraordinary developments today. the wagner presence in rostov controlling key facilities there unthinkable in such a massively important southern town. we've seen them slowly moving up the m-4 highway in the direction of moscow. what they do when they get there, what kind of russian forces they're met with unclear. russia is so sparsely defended. we've already seen how vulnerable it's been on border areas to ukraine's military. this unimaginable in a country tightly under putin's control for over two de...

Combined arms army. and that's the army responsible for fighting in ukraine and also the major logistics center. so he controls rostov-on-don. he's moving up the m-4 with his wagner group, battle tested group, fast fought in syria, fought in africa, bought in bakhmut, good commanders, seasoned commanders know how to do it and moving fast, moving on heavy equipment transporters, his heavy equipment. why is that important? remember when the russians came into kyiv. they didn't use heavy equipment transporters. they were on the ground. he's keeping them on transport to get them where he wants to ...