🔴 Live: Russian investigators recover flight recorders, 10 bodies from Wagner crash

Russian servicemen inspect a part of a private jet thought to have crashed with Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin inside near the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia’s Tver region on Thursday, August 24, 2023. © Alexander Zemlianichenko, AP

Russian investigators said Friday they had recovered flight recorders and 10 bodies from the scene of the plane crash presumed to have killed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin two days ago. Earlier Friday, a Kremlin spokesperson said "speculation" the crash had been ordered by the government was an “absolute lie”.  Follow our live blog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). 

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