2023-08-24 16:52:30
Cover image: Vladimir Putin, in Mosco (Russia), August 24, 2023. MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV / AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday afternoon welcomed the « contribution » to the offensive in Ukraine of the boss of the Wagner Group, Evgueni Prigozhin, despite his “serious errors”I promised you “carry to the end” the investigation into the plane crash. “He was a man with a complicated destiny” and one “talented businessman”Mr. Putin said during a televised meeting, thereby implicitly confirming Mr. Prigozhin’s death.The leader of the paramilitary group – at the origin of a rebellion against the general staff in June – was on board a private jet that crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region, about 180 kilometers northwest of Moscow. In addition to Mr. Prigojine, the aircraft was carrying, according to Russian civil aviation, his right-hand man Dmitri Outkine and other Wagner officials. The Russian authorities have not advanced any leads to explain the crash. The event, however, fueled speculation as to the possible assassination of the man who had become the enemy of the Kremlin after his aborted mutiny. Mr. Prigozhin, whom Mr. Putin said “known since the early 1990s”was then referred to as “traitor” by the Russian President.Kiev ” Has nothing to do with “ the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private jet, said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by the agency Interfax. “Everyone understands who is involved”added the Ukrainian President.French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna reacted with irony on Thursday to the death of Mr. Prigojine, noting that “the death rate among those close to Putin [était] particularly high”. “It’s a risky business”she said.Norway will supply F-16 fighters to Ukraine, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store announced Thursday afternoon in a statement, confirming revelations from Norwegian media. ” We will come back [plus tard] on the details regarding the number [d’avions] and schedule for delivery »added Mr. Store.In central-eastern Ukraine, in Dnipro, a strike left at least ten injured, three of whom are currently hospitalized, lamented the regional governor, Serhi Lyssak.Ukraine said it carried out a commando operation in Crimea overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014, claiming to have killed Russian soldiers there and raised the Ukrainian flag.
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