In his first remarks on Wagner group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death in a plane crash, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called him a “talented businessman” who made “some mistakes, Al Jazeera reported.
An investigation has been launched into the crash of the Embraer plane in the Tver Region on Wednesday, Russia’s Federal Agency for Air Transport said noting that Prigozhin was among the passengers
Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet that crashed north of Moscow, killing all ten people on board, the Russian authorities have said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Wednesday exchanged views on bilateral and international issues.
In a statement, the Russian Defence Ministry said, "On the night of August 23, air defences thwarted another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack on Moscow, which involved three aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles. Two drones involved in the attack were destroyed
Russian President Vladimir Putin in a pre-recorded message played at the BRICS Business forum said that the International economy is affected owing to the freezing of assets of sovereign countries and implied sanctions which he marked as illegal.
The Russian Security Council’s deputy chairman Dmitry Medvedev weighed in on the West’s decision to supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, advising Europe to not get carried away with its "toy plane games," TASS reported.
Former World Chess Champion and Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov congratulated Indian grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa who stormed into the finals of the FIDE World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan.