 Russia's anti-terrorist committee said on June 24 that it was imposing a counter-terrorist regime in Moscow and the surrounding region amid an apparent mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group, the state news agency RIA reported. Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigazin appeared to suggest he had sent an armed convoy on a 1,200 kilometers, 750 mile, charged towards Moscow on Saturday in an unlikely attempt to topple the military leadership. Even local officials said a military convoy was on the main motorway linking the southern part of European Russia, bordering Ukraine, with Moscow, and warned residents to avoid it. Prigazin, whose Wagner militia spearheaded the capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmat last month, has for months been openly accusing Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia's top general, Valery Jarazimov, of rank incompetence and of denying Wagner ammunition and support in its battles in Ukraine.