 A group of Wagner fighters approached a Russian military base that contains nuclear weapons during a short-lived rebellion last month, the first evidence that they neared such a sensitive site, Reuters has found. Interviews with local residents and a review of videos posted on social media show that a contingent of military vehicles split from a Wagner column that was advancing towards Moscow on June 24. This contingent turned eastwards and drove in the direction of Voronezh-45, a military and nuclear base that lies in a thick forest, away from populated areas, the reporting shows. The trail track by Reuters goes cold 100 kilometers before the facility, an expanse that is sparsely inhabited with just a few villages. Ukraine's head of military intelligence, Kirill Obudinov, told Reuters in an interview that Wagner fighters reached the base. Their intention, he said, was to acquire small Soviet-era nuclear devices in order to raise the stakes in their mutiny. As if you are prepared to fight until the last man standing, this is one of the facilities that significantly raises the stakes, Bjudnov said. The only barrier between the Wagner fighters and nuclear weapons, Bjudnov said, were the doors to the nuclear storage facility. The doors of the storage were closed and they didn't get into the technical section, he said.