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The Wagner mutiny sharpened fault lines within the Russian security community – Britain
General Sergey Surovikin, commander in chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces and deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, has not been seen in public since the Wagner group mutiny, the UK Defense Ministry said in its latest intelligence report.
Reports of Surovikin’s arrest cannot be confirmed, the ministry said. However, it added that Russian authorities are likely to be suspicious of Surovikin’s long-standing association with Wagner, which stretches back to his 2017 service in Syria.
According to the update, Surovikin is one of the most respected senior officers in the Russian military, so any official punishment against him is likely to be divisive.
Will Putin clean up the system after the Wagner mutiny?
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The British Ministry of Defense also mentioned Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Yunus-bek Yevkurov, who was filmed speaking to Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin during the mutiny. According to the update, Yevkurov was not present at a television appearance by the ministry leadership on Monday.
The suspicion, which may be aimed at senior officers, highlights how Prigozhin’s failed uprising has exacerbated existing fault lines within Russia’s national security community, the defense ministry concludes.
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Ukraine says it ‘destroyed’ a Russian unit at Makiivka in Donetsk.
The Ukrainian military said it attacked and “destroyed” a Russian base in Makiivka in the Russian-controlled part of Donetsk region.
“As a result of precision shots by Defense Forces units, another formation of Russian terrorists ceased to exist in temporarily occupied Makiivka,” said the Strategic Communications Office of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The bureau also released a video to accompany its message on Telegram, which appeared to show explosions in the city.
Denis Puschilin, the Moscow-appointed head of the occupied region, said one civilian was killed and at least 36 people injured in the fighting.
Pushilin said residential buildings, a hospital, schools and a kindergarten were damaged by the blast.
The claim has not been independently verified.
Kiev and Moscow have reported heavy fighting in the eastern Donetsk region as part of an ongoing Ukrainian counter-offensive to retake territory.
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Kiev and Moscow have accused each other of planning a nuclear power plant attack
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Russia was planning “dangerous provocations” at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
“I warned my colleagues that the occupying forces are preparing dangerous provocations at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. We have agreed to keep the situation under maximum control together with the IAEA,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter.
Zelenskyy spoke with Macron ahead of next week’s NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius.
On Tuesday, both Ukraine and Russia claimed the other was planning an attack on Europe’s largest nuclear facility.
Ukrainian forces said “explosive-like foreign objects” were placed on the outer roof of two power plant units.
While Renat Karchaa, adviser to the head of the Russian atomic energy agency Rosenergoatom, warned on state television that Kiev plans to shell the nuclear power plant and at the same time drop a bomb with nuclear waste.
No evidence was presented for either claim.
Russia occupied the plant at the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Over the past year it has become a focus of concern as Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of shelling the power plant.
However, with the rupture of the downstream Kachowka Dam, the risk of radiation leakage has increased.
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Ukraine reports rocket attack at military funeral, many injured
Kharkiv Region Governor of Ukraine Oleh Synehubov said a Russian missile hit a military funeral in the northeastern region on Tuesday.
In a follow-up post with numbers slightly higher than his original message on Telegram, Synehubov said 43 people were injured, including 12 children.
Dozens injured in Russian missile attack
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He described the injuries as “moderate and minor” and attributed the information to the doctors treating the patients.
Synehubov said a Russian Iksander missile struck a residential area in the town of Pervomaisksyi around 13:35 local time (10:35 GMT/UTC).
He said homes of around 2,000 people were also damaged in the attack.
Kharkiv is located in northeastern Ukraine, bordering Russia. The city, after which the region is named, is the second largest city in Ukraine in terms of population.
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