Russian forces destroyed 42 drones launched by Ukraine over the Crimean peninsula and a missile over the Kaluga region on Friday morning, the defense ministry in Moscow said. The Russians said nine drones were destroyed by anti-aircraft systems and 33 were destroyed by electronic warfare and fell over Crimea without hitting their target.

Memorial to Yevgeny Prigozhin in MoscowPhoto: Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP / Profimedia

The main thing from Friday, the 548th day of the Ukrainian war, LIVETEXT:

A brief summary of recent events:

  • Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to the family of Yevgeny Prigozhin on Thursday, breaking his silence after the mercenary leader’s plane crashed two months after he led a rebellion against Russian army command.
  • The United States is considering a number of theories about what brought down the plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, including a surface-to-air missile that hit it, US officials told Reuters.
  • The fuselage of the plane believed to be carrying Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was almost intact when the plane hit the ground on Wednesday, according to new satellite images.
  • Russian officials have released the full list of crew members and six other people who died along with group leader Wagner. All six passengers were Prigozhin’s basements.
  • The video images, which recorded the fall of the plane on which the head of mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMK, Evgeny Prioghin, was on board, rule out the hypothesis of a technical malfunction or pilot error.
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  • The Ukrainian military says at least 30 Russians were killed in a naval raid by Ukrainian special forces against Russian facilities on the western coast of Crimea early Thursday.
  • German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock expressed her disappointment with the effect of sanctions against Russia related to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, saying that they are not working.
  • Norway decided to transfer F-16 fighters to Ukraine and became the third European country to do so.
  • The group of countries with developing economies, BRICS, has invited 6 states to join the informal organization, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday.
  • Another sudden death in Russia. Former Russian special services general Gennady Lopyrev, who allegedly knew about the construction of President Vladimir Putin’s residence on the Black Sea, died in custody.

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  • Thursday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro