Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations near Robotynyi in western Zaporizhzhya Oblast and appeared to have advanced into the area, and Russian military bloggers expressed concern that Moscow’s military was not moving reinforcements there or rotating troops.

The main thing from Friday, the 549th day of the Ukrainian war, LIVETEXT:

08:04 Russia shot down a drone near Moscow, flights were suspended at three airports

01:30Developments at the front: the Russians are regrouping in the east and preparing for the offensive, – the Ukrainian commander

00:46Turkey declares that it sees no other solution than an agreement on the export of grain between Ukraine and Russia

00:19 Estonian Prime Minister Kayu Kallas is forced to resign because of her husband’s ties to Russia

A brief summary of recent events:

• US President Joe Biden said on Friday that US officials are trying to determine exactly how Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was shot down in Russia.
• Zelensky reports that he spoke with Biden: America will join the training of F-16 pilots and engineers / Turkey will help free Ukrainian prisoners.
• Russian investigators announced on Friday that they had found the bodies of ten dead people, as well as the black box of the plane that crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region north of Moscow, in which Yevgeny Prigozhin was.
• The “Wagner” paramilitary group is “broken”, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said after the alleged death of its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin.
• Oleksandr Lukashenko said he had warned the leaders of Wagner’s mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmytro Utkin, to be aware of possible threats to their lives, and insisted that Wagner’s fighters would remain in Belarus.
• Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree requiring members of paramilitary forces to take the oath of allegiance to Russia, just like soldiers in the regular army.
• A Russian military delegation visited the Libyan city of Benghazi this week to meet with the Libyan National Army, which is backed by the Wagner Group.
• On Friday, the Kremlin said it was “impossible” to know whether President Putin would attend Prigozhin’s funeral.
• Romania and four other European countries want to extend the ban on Ukrainian grain until the end of the year, Poland reports.
• Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov publicly mourned Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, although the two former allies had been at loggerheads since before the military uprising launched by Wagner’s leader.
• Russia reprimanded US President Joe Biden on Friday after he said he was not surprised by the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash.
• The head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, Serhiy Naryshkin, gave a eloquent speech, mentioning “bad weather”, World War II and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
• “Karma” VIDEO: The Russian military man, who last month boasted about the capture of the Bradley fighting vehicle in a defiant message to President Zelensky, was captured.
• Dutch brewer Heineken announced on Friday that it has completed its exit from Russia, selling its operations in the country to Russia’s Arnest Group for a symbolic sum of one euro.

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• Friday’s events regarding Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro