Russia has confirmed that Wagner’s boss was among the victims of the plane crash “according to genetic evidence”.
Russia confirmed Sunday, August 27, that Wagner’s boss was among the victims of the plane crash “according to genetic evidence.” The Russian investigative committee has found that the identities of the ten victims “match the list” of passengers and crew on the private plane that crashed on Wednesday. Franceinfo summarizes what happened on the Ukrainian front during the day.
Russia confirms Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the crashed plane
The death of the head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, whose private plane crashed in Russia on Wednesday, was confirmed by genetic reports, the Russian investigative committee said. After a “molecular genetic study,” it was determined that the identities of the ten victims whose bodies were found after the crash “matched the list” of passengers and crew on the plane, the investigative committee said in a press release. Among the passengers were Evguéni Prigojine and his right-hand man Dmitri Outkine, a former officer of a special military intelligence unit. Nine of the 10 passengers were associated with the Russian paramilitary group Wagner.
A second cargo got stuck in the Odessa port and was exited via a makeshift corridor
Ukraine said a second cargo ship, stuck in the port of Odessa due to Russia’s exit from the Black Sea export deal, has put to sea and reached Romanian territorial waters.
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Kyiv earlier this month unilaterally decided to set up a temporary sea corridor after Moscow pulled out of an agreement designed to ensure the safety of shipping for the transportation of export goods, including grain, from Ukrainian ports. “The second ship has reached Romanian waters after safely sailing through our makeshift corridor,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on social media. “Thank you to everyone who made this possible – our dockers, our fighters and all those defending freedom,” he added.
Russia has sent a fighter jet to fend off a US drone in the Black Sea
Russia claimed to have launched one of its fighter jets to prevent an American drone from crossing its Black Sea border. “As the Russian fighter jet approached, the foreign reconnaissance drone turned around and left the border of the Russian Federation,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. Tensions have flared up again on the Black Sea since Moscow left the agreement protecting grain exports by sea in mid-July. In recent months, there have been several incidents involving Russian and Western aircraft over the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.
A drone crashed into a building in Russia on the border with Ukraine
A drone crashed on a residential building in Kursk, the capital of the border region of the same name with Ukraine, on the night from Saturday to Sunday without any fatalities, according to local authorities. “The windows on several floors were smashed,” regional governor Roman Starovoit wrote on Telegram, adding: “There was no fire, no one among the residents was injured.”
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a press release that it shot down two Ukrainian drones in the Kursk region and in the Bryansk region, which also borders Ukraine, on Sunday.