Yevgeny Prigozhin says his fighters will march on capital unless military leaders come to him in extraordinary escalation of tensions

(...) In the early hours of Saturday, [Prigozhin] then released another voice message in which he claimed that his forces had left Ukraine and were entering Rostov.

“Right now we have crossed all the border points … The border guards greeted us and hugged our fighters. Now we are entering Rostov,” he said. “If anyone gets in our way, we will destroy everything … We extend our hand to everyone. We move forward, we are going all the way!”

The FSB Security Service opened a criminal case for armed mutiny against Prigozhin and said his statements and actions constituted “calls for the start of an armed civil conflict on the territory of the Russian Federation”.