There were 15 people, including eight crew members and seven passengers, on board when the military cargo plane crashed. Who the passengers were and where they were headed was not clear.
The Punjab government on Thursday wrote to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and urged it to bring back home Indian youth who have been "forcibly inducted" into the Russian Military and sent in the Ukraine war.
These entities have supplied materials and sensitive technology for Iran's ballistic missile and UAV programs, including Shahed-series UAVs being used by the Russian military against Ukraine.
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has decided to stop his march to Moscow after talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, reported Al Jazeera on Saturday.
Slamming Moscow hours after the Wagner group launched a rebellion against Russian military facilities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that everyone who chooses the path of evil "destroys" himself.
"On June 4, 2023, border protection units of the Western Military District and the Border Service of the Russian Federal Security Service exposed an attempt by a sabotage and reconnaissance group of Ukrainian terrorists to cross the river near the settlement of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the B
The Su-34 fighter-bomber, Su-35 fighter and two Mi-8 helicopters had made up a raiding party, and had been "shot down almost simultaneously" in an ambush in the Bryansk region, adjoining northeast Ukraine, reported independent Russian news outlet Kommersant.
"Reconnaissance aircraft intercepted. Germany and UK #Eurofighter have been alerted to identify 3 military machines. The two SU-27 flankers and one IL-20 from Russia flew again without a transponder signal in international airspace over the Baltic Sea," tweeted Team Luftwaffe.
Deutsche Welle (DW) reported today that in the Ukranian capital, Stoltenberg paid tribute to those who had lost their lives defending their country against Russian forces. He also reviewed Russian military relics on exhibit at a prominent Kyiv square.
Giving details about the incident, Prigozhin said, "April 2, 23:00 precisely. Behind me is the building of [Artyomovsk's] city administration. This Russian flag is for Vladlen Tatarsky, [the Russian military reporter killed in a blast in St. Petersburg on Sunday]," according to the TASS a
In a statement, FSB said, "Gershkovich acting on the instructions of the American side, collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of one of the enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex," read a WSJ report.