 Russia's rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigazin said on June 24 he had taken control of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don as part of an attempt to ask the military leadership and that he was headed for Moscow. Video obtained by Reuters released on Saturday show Prigazin sitting with Eunice Bekyevkarov, deputy Russian Federation Defense Minister and Army Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexev in Rostov-on-Don in which he says, We came here and we want to get the chief of staff, Valery Jarazimov, and Sergei Shoygu, Russian Defense Minister. Until they come here, we will stay here, we will block the city of Rostov and go towards Moscow. Prigazin has pledged to ask Shoygu and Jarazimov over what he says is their disastrous leadership of the war against Ukraine, over what he says is their disastrous leadership of the war against Ukraine, come to see him in Rostov, a sitting near the Ukrainian border that he said he had seized control of. Referring to Russian soldiers in Ukraine he said, The guys are dying because you are pushing them into a meat grinder. Without munitions, without any thought, without any plan, you are just aging clowns.