Ukrainian drones strike six regions inside Russia, destroying military aircraft; Kremlin investigating whether plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin was downed on purpose
, in one of the largest-scale attacks on Russia in months. Drones hit an airport in the western Pskov region, and the regions of Moscow, Oryol, Bryansk, Ryazan and Kaluga., Russian authorities said, engulfing two of the planes in flames. Footage and images posted on social media showed smoke billowing over the city and the regional governor, Mikhail Vedernikov, ordered all flights to and from Pskov airport to be cancelled on Wednesday.
Air defences shot down all 28 Russian missiles and 15 out of 16 drones, Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, said on Wednesday. The chief official in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, said a cruise missile was fired at the peninsula on Wednesday. , the Kremlin said on Wednesday in the first explicit acknowledgment of what most already believed to have been an assassination. “It is obvious that different versions are being considered, including … a deliberate atrocity,” the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters.Member states have bought more than half of Russia’s LNG on the market in the first seven months of this year, according to analysis.
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