{"id":5279,"date":"2023-06-24T17:17:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/moscow-mayor-says-situation-difficult-as-mercenary-wagner-group-approaches\/%e0%a4%8f%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b2%e0%a5%82%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b5\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T17:17:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:17:54","slug":"moscow-mayor-says-situation-difficult-as-mercenary-wagner-group-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=5279","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Mayor Says &#8220;Situation Difficult&#8221; As Mercenary Wagner Group Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Moscow Mayor Says 'Situation Difficult' As Mercenary Group Approaches\" alt=\"Moscow Mayor Says 'Situation Difficult' As Mercenary Group Approaches\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-06\/shkfug8o_wagner-group-on-their-way-to-moscow-reuters-650_625x300_24_June_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">Wagner mercenary group moved towards Moscow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Moscow: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Saturday warned the situation in the capital was &#8220;difficult,&#8221; as forces of the Wagner mercenary group moved towards Moscow to oust Russia&#8217;s military leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is difficult. I ask you to refrain from travelling around the city as much as possible,&#8221; Sobyanin said in a statement, warning of possible road closures and announcing Monday was a &#8220;non-working&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow Mayor&#8217;s alert comes after rebel groups were &#8220;moving across&#8221; the Lipetsk region, which is around 400 km south of Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hardware of the Wagner mercenary group is moving across the territory of the Lipetsk region,&#8221; Governor Igor Artamonov said on Telegram. &#8220;I remind you that residents are strongly recommended not to leave their houses or to make trips on any mode of transport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit, is en route to Moscow to overthrow the Russian military leadership following their chief&#8217;s challenge to Putin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The armed rebellion by the outfit, amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, is seen as the biggest threat to Putin&#8217;s authority. The Wagner group&#8217;s role has been crucial in the ongoing war, it was even credited for the capture of the key city of Bakhmut after a bloody 224-day-long battle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/moscow-mayor-urges-residents-to-limit-travel-as-rebel-military-group-approaches-4149992\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Wagner mercenary group moved towards Moscow Moscow: Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin on Saturday warned the situation in the capital was &#8220;difficult,&#8221; as forces of the Wagner mercenary group moved towards Moscow to oust Russia&#8217;s military leadership. &#8220;The situation is difficult. I ask you to refrain from travelling around the city as much as possible,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}