Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the private military group Wagner, said his fighters are entering the Russian Rostov region, which neighbors Ukraine.
“Now we are entering Rostov. The units of the Ministry of Defense, or rather the conscripts, who were thrown to block our road, stepped aside,” Prigozhin said, adding that at the moment his units “have crossed the state border in all places."
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Please, let today be the end of this terrible war… let them fight among themselves if they want…
A nuclear stockpile being fought over in a civil war is a terrifying prospect.
It’s not much use when they destroy the very thing you’re fighting for, but yes terrifying is the right word…