MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will give a televised address soon, the TASS news agency cited the Kremlin as saying on Saturday.

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has said he wants to oust the leadership of the Defence Ministry over its purported incompetence and has posted videos of himself in the southern Russian city of Rostov where the Russian army has one of its headquarters.

Three killed in latest Russian air strike on Ukraine