Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky casually suggested that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was behind the suspicious plane crash that killed Wagner Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin and nine others.
The Kremlin had previously given Yevgeny Prigozhin a pass, likely due to his service in Ukraine, but Kyiv now believes the FSB has been ordered to kill the chief mutineer
Yevgeny Prigozhin said today that his fighters would not sign any contract with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, publicly defying what appear to be efforts to rein in his influence.
The partial and confused reports of clashes on the Donbass front, point to the beginning of the much-heralded Ukrainian counter-offensive. On the basis of sketchy information it is impossible to make a definitive prognosis. The following lines therefore bear an entirely conditional character.
The Wagner Group claimed to have captured Lieutenant Colonel Roman Venevitin, who has been accused of drunkenly firing on Russian mercenaries as they were clearing mines outside the city of Bakhmut.