The identities of all 10 people aboard the Embraer business jet that crashed last week have been verified, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
, the acting governor of Poltava region, Dmytro Lunin, said in a
Monday morning local time. Two others were hospitalized and two more people may be stuck under the rubble, he said.on Sunday, according to regional governors. One was killed in the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the other in Kherson, in the country’s south.according to the mayor, Sergei Sobyanin. There were no casualties and no damage was reported, he said in a Telegram
early Monday local time. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had downed two Ukraine-dispatched drones over its Bryansk and Kursk regions the previous evening. The Post could not independently verify the claims.Even in death, Yevgeniy Prigozhin is posing one last challenge for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Though the memorials are far from a national outpouring of grief, they highlight the balancing act required by the Kremlin as it attempts to manage potential anger among Prigozhin’s supporters, The Post’s Moscow bureau chief Robyn Dixon reports. The memorials are occurring against the backdrop of suspicion among many in Russia’s elite that the Wagner chief’s death was an assassination ordered by Putin.
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