Just two days before a plane carrying Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin along with other top commanders of the Kremlin-linked mercenary group crashed over Russia, a video appeared online in which Prigozhin claimed to be somewhere on the African continent. In the video, published by the Russian "Razgruzka Vagnera" Telegram channel linked to the group, Prigozhin says he and his Wagner Group are “in Africa,” vowing to make “Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa - even freer.”
Ukraine retrieves bodies of 44 fallen soldiers. In his nightly address on Aug. 4, President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his gratitude to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) for "pushing the war back to the aggressor state."