Summary of today's developments

 

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Here is a summary of today's developments

 

Joe Biden has strongly suggested Vladimir Putin’s involvement in the apparent death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash, as Ukrainian officials interpreted the incident as a warning to Russian “elites”, and flowers were laid for the late Wagner chief outside the organisation’s St Petersburg headquarters.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said Kyiv had nothing to do with the presumed death of Prigozhin.

An early morning missile strike injured seven people in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lisak, said on Thursday.

France said on Thursday there were “reasonable doubts” about the cause of the plane crash that presumably killed Prigozhin.

Norway has also decided to donate combat aircraft to Ukraine, the Norwegian broadcaster TV2 reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.

The presumed death of Prigozhin follows a pattern of “unclarified” fatalities in Russia, Germany’s foreign minister said on Thursday, adding that it was no coincidence that focus had turned to the Kremlin for answers.