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• The Russian Defense Ministry claimed early Friday that it shot down 42 Ukrainian drones in Crimeapeninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, in an attack he describes as being of a rare scale. Moscow also said it shot down a Ukrainian missile aimed at “civilian targets” in Kaluga Oblastsouthwest of the Russian capital.
• Ukrainian pilots will be trained from September by the United States in the handling of the F-16 fighter modelthe Pentagon announced on Thursday. And Norway will supply F-16s to Ukraine, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr has announcedThursday afternoon.
• The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday afternoon welcomed the ” contribution “ to the offensive in Ukraine of the fighters of the Wagner Group. He promised to “carry to the end” the investigation into the crash of Yevgeny Prigojine’s plane. “He was a man with a complicated destiny” and one “talented businessman”despite its “serious mistakes”Mr. Putin said of the boss of the paramilitary group during a televised meeting, thereby implicitly confirming Mr. Prigozhin’s death.
• The leader of the paramilitary group – at the origin of a rebellion against the general staff in June – was on board a private jet that crashed on Wednesday in the Tver region, about 180 kilometers northwest of Moscow. In addition to Mr. Prigojine, the aircraft carried, according to Russian civil aviation, his right arm, Dmitri Outkine, and other officials of the Wagner Group.
• The U.S. military does not have “no information indicating that a surface-to-air missile” is involved in the crash of the plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, Pentagon spokesman Patrick S. Ryder said Thursday, calling it a“inaccurate” reports of the use of such a weapon.

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