After Prigozhin’s death, the Wagnerites lined up to leave the camps in Belarus and go to Russia, writes the local press. On the evening of August 23 in Belarus, part of the camps where the Wagnerites lived were closed. The convoys are heading to the border with the Russian Federation, but the special services of Belarus are trying to prevent the mercenaries from leaving, the cited source writes

Synthesis of the last 24 hours of the war:

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Wagner’s mercenary group, died after the plane he was on crashed on Wednesday northwest of Moscow.
• The crash happened months after Prigozhin launched a rebellion against Russia’s military leadership.
• US President Joe Biden suggested that President Vladimir Putin could be behind the plane crash. “I don’t know exactly what happened, but I’m not surprised,” he said.
• The Ukrainian military raised the national flag in the village of Robotyne in the Zaporizhzhia region, the Kyiv military reported on Wednesday.
• Four school employees were killed and four others were injured as a result of an attack by Russians on an educational institution in the city of Romny in northeastern Ukraine.
• Russian attacks on sea and river ports destroyed 270,000 tons of grain in a month, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Wednesday.
• Vladimir Putin has replaced General Sergei Surovikin as the commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the state agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, confirming the information that appeared a day ago.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine for Thursday, LIVETEXT:

06:24The Russian helicopter pilot was persuaded to land in Kyiv. The head of the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, clarified: “We managed to find the right approach to get his entire family out of the country so that he could fly the plane with the rest of the crew, who did not know what was going on. Realizing where they got to, they tried to run away. Unfortunately, they have been removed. I would like to catch them alive,” said Budanov.

06:10After Prigozhin’s death, the Wagnerites lined up to leave the camps in Belarus and go to Russia, writes the local press. On the evening of August 23 in Belarus, part of the camps where the Wagnerites lived were closed. The convoys are heading to the border with the Russian Federation, but the special services of Belarus are trying to prevent the mercenaries from leaving, the cited source writes

06:05of the military administration of Ukraine”The fighters of the Special Operations Center “A” and the aerial scouts of the 30th separate mechanized brigade demonstrated excellent cooperation. “For 6 hours, special forces drones struck at enemy equipment, destroying several guns, an anti-aircraft missile system and military transport equipment,” the message reads.

05:48The British government will provide guarantees in the amount of 192 million pounds (225 million euros) to strengthen Ukraine’s energy security and help the country overcome its fuel dependence on the Russian Federation, Ukrinform reports.

00:31Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and one of his closest associates, Dmytro Utkin, another key Wagner figure, died on Wednesday after the plane they were on crashed. Will Wagner’s group survive without its founder, asks the Guardian.

23:55 Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svitlana Tikhanovskaya said Wednesday that Wagner PMC boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was a “murderer” who “nobody will miss” after his death was confirmed in a plane crash, AFP reports .

“Nobody in Belarus will miss the criminal Prigozhin. He was a criminal, and he should be remembered as such,” Tikhanovskaya wrote on the social network X (formerly Twitter), believing that “his death could destroy Wagner’s presence in Belarus”, a country-union of Moscow.

11:50 in the eveningThe bodies of all ten people who were on board the crashed plane were recovered from the scene, and the search operation has been completed, the Interfax news agency reported with reference to the emergency services, the BBC reports.

23:42White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top adviser about Yevgeny Prigozhin in June to convey that the United States was not involved in Wagner’s armed uprising and that it was an internal problem, Wall Street Journal reports with reference to anonymous

23:20Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, also confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmytro Utkin were among 10 people on board the plane that crashed on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

10:21 pmUS President Joe Biden has said that not much is happening in Russia without Vladimir Putin, and while he does not know what happened to the Wagner leader, he is not surprised by the news that Yevgeny Prigozhin may have died in a plane crash in Russia, Reuters and The Guardian report.