Russian army fails to comply with order to stop Wagner Group's movement on Moscow

This is described in a journalistic investigation by Reuters.

The publication bases these conclusions on the testimony of five different sources - from Russian security forces, three people close to the Kremlin, and a representative of the occupation authorities in eastern Ukraine. At least two Russian military units in southwestern Russia were ordered to resist the rebels but failed to do so.

Some Russian units did nothing because they were caught off guard, while others believed that Prigozhin was acting on orders from the Kremlin. Some officers were reluctant to confront the Wagner mercenaries because they felt solidarity with them and shared PMC leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's frustration with the way the Ministry of Defense was conducting the war.

Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov told Reuters that many in the Russian military have sided with Prigozhin.

"There are so many commanders who sympathize with Wagner and don't want to follow Putin," he said, adding that he knew of 14 Russian generals who supported Prigozhin.

Prigozhin's mutiny in Russia

On June 23, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Wagner base. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner PMC, announced a "march of justice" and stated that 25,000 mercenaries were heading to Moscow after the Russian leadership refused to hand over Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

On June 26, Putin gave a speech in which he offered the Wagner PMC fighters three options for future actions: join the Russian army, go to Belarus with other PMC members, or return to their families.

On June 27, the Federal Security Service of Russia announced that it dropped the criminal case related to the armed plot, in which Wagner PMC leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was involved.

On the same day, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus confirmed the arrival of Yevgeny Prigozhin in the country. According to him, the Wagner mercenaries who arrived with him would not guard the Russian tactical nuclear weapons stationed there.

On July 3, Russian media published photos taken by local residents showing an alleged Wagner camp in the Mogilev region of Belarus. 

Instead, Ukrainian intelligence noted that Prigozhin is unlikely to move all the fighters to Belarus and will not stay there permanently. Obviously, it is a matter of redeploying some of the Wagner soldiers.

On July 6, Lukashenko said that the Wagner mercenaries were in their field camps, and the company's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was in Russia.

Germany's Federal Intelligence Service may have listened to a conversation between self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Yevgeny Prigozhin during the Wagner PMC mutiny in Russia.

On July 9, UK intelligence analyzed how Russian propaganda media covered the armed rebellion of Wagner PMC mercenaries led by their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to experts, this happened in three stages.