Russia thwarted Ukrainian drone attacks in the Moscow and Bryansk regions (west) on the night of August 27-28. “There were no casualties or damage, according to initial information,” said Sergei Sobyanin, mayor of the Russian capital.
Moscow’s Domodedovo and Vnukovo international airports were briefly closed to departures and arrivals before resuming operations, Russian state news agency TASS reported, citing the airline service.
Russia officially confirms the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin
Russia officially confirmed the death of Yevgueni Prigojine on August 27, “following genetic expertise”. The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner was on board a private jet that crashed on Wednesday. His death casts doubt on the Kremlin, which could have taken revenge two months after the aborted rebellion of Yevgueni Prigojine and his men.
Besides the boss of Wagner, the plane crash in the Russian region of Tver claimed nine other victims. The “molecular genetic expertise” established that the identities of the ten people “corresponded to the list” of passengers and crew members of the plane, according to the Russian investigation committee. The names of Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man, Dmitri Utkin, a former military intelligence officer and operational commander of Wagner, appeared on this list.
Investigators have not yet said anything about the leads examined. They did not mention the thesis of the accident, or those of a bomb or a surface-to-air missile. For their part, Westerners pointed the finger at Vladimir Putin, who had called Yevgueni Prigojine a “traitor” for his rebellion against Moscow.
A second freighter leaves Odessa despite the end of the grain agreement
Ukraine announced on August 27 that a second cargo ship, blocked in the port of Odessa because of the end of the grain agreement with Moscow, had set sail. It reached Romanian territorial waters. The building, which transports steel destined for the African market, “sailed smoothly through our temporary corridor”, announced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kyiv unilaterally decided to set up an interim sea corridor earlier this month after Moscow walked out of the deal. The aim is to ensure the safety of navigation for the transport of export cargoes, in particular grain, from Ukrainian ports.
Russia has withdrawn from the grain agreement to ensure the export of Ukrainian products via the Black Sea despite the war. Since then, it has threatened to consider as a potential target any ship heading for Ukrainian ports. She also announced that she had dispatched a fighter jet to repel a US Air Force reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea.
A drone hits a building in Kursk, Russia
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, a drone hit the facade of a building on Karl-Marx Street in Kursk, said Roman Starovoit, governor of the Russian oblast on the border with Ukraine. “There was no fire and no residents were injured”, but the shock wave shattered windows of the faculty of engineering of the university of agronomy, which is is in the same street, he said on the social network Telegram, taken over by the World.