against the russian military injune amid growing tension with commanders over the war in ukraine. he had since relocated to belarus. in a statement released on the telegram channel, the spokeswoman of russia s investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. as part of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed according to their results. the identities of all ten dead were established. they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. live now to marina miron, post doctoral researcher in war studies at king s college and an expert on russian politics. thank you forjoining us. how much do you think we can take the confirmation that this was prigozhin as absolute? for confirmation that this was prigozhin as absolute? as absolute? for the kremlin it was im ortant as absolute? for the kremlin it was important to as absolute? for the kremli
led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with commanders over the war in ukraine. he had since relocated to belarus. in a statement released on telegram channel the spokeswoman of russia s investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. as part of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed according to their results. the identities of all ten dead were established. they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. let s go live now to our security correspondent frank gardner. how certain can we be about what the russian authorities say they have confirmed? i russian authorities say they have confirmed? russian authorities say they have confirmed? ~ , ., , , , confirmed? i think this largely puts the nail in the confirmed? i think this largely puts the nail in the coffin confirmed? i think this la
that there are no members of the australian defence force involved in this incident. our focus as a government and as a department of defence is very much on incident response and on making sure that every support and assistance is given at this difficult time. our reporter in sydney, phil mercer, has the latest. officials have confirmed that three us marines have died in this aircraft crash. this took place on the tiwi islands, about 60 kilometres to the north of darwin, the capital city of australia s northern territory. so right at the north in the middle of australia, on melville island, one of the tiwi islands, this vertical take off aircraft has crashed. this is an osprey, one of two us vertical take off aircraft that have been involved in military drills between australian forces and us military forces in the northern territory. we understand that 23 people were on board. three us marines have been confirmed to have been killed. at least five others have been flown to
amid growing tension with commanders over the war in ukraine. he had since relocated to belarus. here s our russia editor steve rosenberg on whether today s announcement draws a line under the prigozhin affair. this is the closest, perhaps, we ll get to an official confirmation that yevgeny prigozhin is dead. this is all coming from an official russian body, russia s investigative committee, which said that genetic testing of all the bodies recovered from the crash site has been completed and claims that the identities of all ten victims matches the names on the flight manifest. and of course, that list of passengers and crew on the embraer plane that crashed included the head of wagner, yevgeny prigozhin, and his right hand man, dmitry utkin. i don t think. there are people who believe in conspiracy theorists who believe that perhaps somehow mr prigozhin got away. today s news will not change their minds. as for the cause of the crash, we re none the wiser. lots of possible
which had named mr prigozhin. the mercenary leader had led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with russian commanders over the war in ukraine. he d since relocated to belarus. in a statement released on telegram channel the spokeswoman of russia s investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. translation: as part - of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region molecular genetic examinations have been completed. according to their results, the identities of all ten dead were established, they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. bbc monitoring s russia editor vitaly shevchenko gave us the latest. this short announcement by russia s official investigations committee came as no surprise to anyone. yevgeny prigozhin and his right hand man as well as a couple of other key commanders from the wagner mercer group were presumed dead following the a