Ottawa says it's monitoring tensions in Russia amid armed rebellion
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada's incident response group is meeting today to discuss the latest developments in Russia.
Canada's incident response group will meet on Saturday to discuss the latest developments in Russia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
Authorities in that country are trying to tamp down an armed rebellion led by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
Canada is in contact with allies and will continue to monitor the situation closely, Trudeau said in a tweet Saturday morning.
A tweet earlier in the day from foreign affairs minister Melanie Joly said the G7 foreign ministers held a call to discuss the overnight developments in Russia, but offered no further details.
Prigozhin's Wagner group appears to control military headquarters in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where Russia's operations in Ukraine are run, according to Britain's Ministry of Defence. The city is more than 1,000 kilometres south of Moscow.
Wagner troops and equipment have also entered Russia's Lipetsk province, around 360 kilometres south of the Russian capital.
Authorities have tightened security in a number of Russian regions amid the tensions, with some mass events cancelled.
