One video showed a strike on what appeared to be a Wagner-led convoy heading for Moscow on the M-4 highway.
As Russia slides into a frightening civil war seemingly overnight, “Top Gun”-style footage of a Russian Ka-52 Army helicopterin Voronezh was among a spate of stunning videos Saturday showing how fast it appears to be going wrong for President Vladimir Putin.
The Strela-10 air defense system, reportedly belonging to the Wagner private mercenary forces led by one-time Putin ally Yevgeny Progozhin, was seen firing at the Russian Ka-52 military helicopter in Voronezh, which is about 300 miles from Moscow.Footage of a Russian Ka-52 Army helicopter was seen deflecting a Wagner anti-aircraft missile in Voronezh.The Wagner paramilitary group claimed that one of their vehicles was targeted by Russian forces on June 24, 2023.
Hardened fighters from his private militia have seized control of Rostov-on-Don, a city of nearly a million on the Ukraine border that serves as the rear logistical hub for Russia’s entire invasion force, and were moving rapidly north through western Russia. A nearby explosion at an oil depot occurred while Wagner’s private mercenary forces were allegedly firing missiles at the Russian helicopter.In the capital, traffic on the Moscow River came to a halt as cops in bulletproof vests and armed with machine guns were spotted near the entrance of the major highway that links Moscow with Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don in apparent expectation of the oncoming Wagner convoy.
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