On June 24, as Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebel Wagner forces advanced towards Moscow, a group of military vehicles took an eastern diversion towards a fortified Russian army base believed to house nuclear weapons, Reuters reported after interviews with local residents and going through videos posted online.
However, once the Wagner fighters reach more rural regions, the surveillance trail goes cold – about 100 km from the nuclear base, Voronezh-45, the Reuters said.