When asked if there have been any irrational or illogical uses of pilots and aviation, Maksim Kuzminov, 28, said that there have been ‘numerous cases’.
The former Wagner leader’s apparent death will lead to ‘a lot of dead bodies piling up on both sides of the story’, according to Chicago-born businessman turned Kremlin critic Bill Browder.
Investigators searched Yevgeny Prigozhin’s property in St Petersburg on June 24 this year after the Wagner chief’s failed mutiny against Russia’s defence ministry.
General Gennady Lopyrev, 69, suddenly became ill on Monday – gasping for breath – and was told by doctors he had previously undiagnosed leukaemia.
Ukraine kicked off its counter-offensive against Russian forces in June after building up assault battalions and stockpiling Western-donated weapons, but has been stalled by fortifications.
The explosion at the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant also initially prompted reports of a drone strike, but this was soon denied by Russian officials.
President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine as a ‘war crime’ as Moscow escalated its attacks.
Bodycam video shows a team of soldiers from the third assault brigade raiding the Russian positions. President Zelensky visited the frontline and hailed troops there as ‘truly heroic’.