2023-08-27 17:35:19
Russia said on Sunday August 27 that it had taken off one of its fighter planes to prevent an American drone from crossing its border in the Black Sea. “When the Russian fighter jet approached, the foreign reconnaissance drone turned around, departing from the border of the Russian Federation”, said the Russian Defense Ministry. The Black Sea has been experiencing renewed tensions since Moscow left the agreement protecting cereal exports by sea in mid-July. In recent months, several incidents have involved Russian and Western aircraft over the Black Sea and the Baltic. Follow our live.
A second cargo, blocked in the port of Odessa, left via a temporary corridor. This path was put in place after the failure of the Black Sea grain agreement. “The bulk carrier Primus flying the Liberian flag and belonging to a Singaporean operator left the port of Odessa”, explained the Ukrainian Ministry of Reconstruction on Sunday. Russia had withdrawn its security guarantees in the Black Sea maritime corridor for Ukrainian exports in mid-July.
A drone crashed into a building in Russia, on the border with Ukraine. The incident occurred in Kursk, capital of the eponymous region, bordering Ukraine, local authorities announced on Sunday. “The windows on several floors were smashed”, regional governor Roman Starovoit wrote on Telegram. “There was no fire, no one among the inhabitants was injured”, he added. For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a press release that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones on Sunday in the Kursk region and in that of Bryansk, which also borders Ukraine.
Evguéni Prigojine was on the plane that crashed, according to genetic expertise. The death of the boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, whose private plane crashed in Russia on Wednesday, has been confirmed by genetic expertise, the Russian Investigation Committee announced on Sunday. At the end of the “molecular genetic expertise”it has been established that the identities of the ten victims whose bodies were found after the crash, “match the list” passengers and crew members of the plane, including Evguéni Prigojine, the Investigation Committee said in a statement. Nine of the ten passengers were linked to the Russian paramilitary group Wagner.
Russian bombardments cause one death in the Kherson region. Shelling left one dead and four injured on Saturday in the Kherson region, according to what Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram. About sixty attacks were recorded, including 36 shellings, in particular on residential areas, he detailed.
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