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A “farewell ceremony” for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, his spokespeople said on Tuesday in a statement on social media.
Russian mercenaries gathered today for the funeral of Valery Chekalov, one of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s deputies who was killed with his boss in a plane crash last week, as the Kremlin said Vladimir Putin had no plans to attend Prigozhin’s funeral.
Russian shelling killed a 45-year-old civilian man in the town of Kupiansk, according to local officials, as Moscow’s forces try to advance in north-eastern Ukraine.
An FSB security services helicopter crashed Tuesday in central Russia, leaving three people dead, regional officials said.
More than 1,300 schools have been totally destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion, Unicef has said.
Ukraine said on Tuesday that its forces had pushed deeper into Russian defensive lines near the village of Robotyne, a day after claiming control over the village on the southern front.
Vladimir Putin will skip the G20 summit in India next month and will send his foreign minister instead, prime minister Narendra Modi’s office said.
The US has accused Moscow of attempting to intimidate and harass US employees after Russian state media reported that a former US consulate worker had been charged with collecting information on the war in Ukraine and other issues for Washington.
Russian air defences reportedly downed Ukrainian drones over the Tula and Belgorod regions, Moscow’s defence ministry said on Tuesday, without indicating if there had been damage or casualties.
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The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has announced a new package of military assistance to aid Ukraine.
The package includes additional mine clearing equipment, missiles for air defence, ammunition for artillery and high bar systems, and over 3m rounds of small arms ammunition, Blinken said in a statement.
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