Insurgent Wagner group downed Russian chopper close to metropolis they now management: Report | World News

A Russian helicopter was reportedly shot down within the Voronezh Oblast area which falls on the best way to Moscow from the rebels-controlled metropolis of Rostov-on-Don. In a video shared broadly on the web, smoke may be seen billowing from the particles mendacity in an space alongside the M4 freeway in Pavlovsk, Voronezh Oblast.

Authorities in Voronezh have suggested residents to remain off the primary freeway linking the 2 as a result of a army convoy was on the highway because the insurgent mercenaries led by Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin swarmed over Rostov-on-Don to assert management of the army websites there.

Rostov-on-Don is residence to the Russian army headquarters for the southern area and likewise oversees the preventing in Ukraine.

In the meantime, studies counsel that the mercenaries have taken management of Voronezh – round 500 km (310 miles)south of Moscow – the second metropolis to fall to the insurgent group.

Earlier immediately, Prigozhin, 62, mentioned his forces, who've spearheaded a lot of Russia's offensive in Ukraine, had entered the southern Russian metropolis of Rostov-on-Don and managed its army websites.

"We're contained in the (military) headquarters, it's 7:30 am (0430 GMT)," Prigozhin mentioned in a video on Telegram.

"Navy websites in Rostov, together with an aerodrome, are below management," he added.

Prigozhin mentioned planes collaborating within the Ukraine offensive "are leaving as regular" from the airfield, and known as on Russians to not imagine what they had been being advised on state tv.

"An enormous quantity of territory is misplaced. Troopers have been killed three, 4 instances greater than it says in paperwork proven to the highest (management)."

The Wagner chief additionally mentioned his forces had shot down a Russian army helicopter.

(With inputs from companies)