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• DNA testing has confirmed Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was among last week's 10 plane crash victims. READ MORE BELOW

• Three Ukrainian military pilots including a high profile pilot nicknamed 'Juice' died in a mid air collision during combat training over a region west of Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Andriy Pilshchykov, who yearned to fly an F-16, was "one of those who greatly helped our state."

• Moscow launched an overnight air attack across northern and central parts of Ukraine. 

• The governor of Kyiv said two people were wounded and 10 buildings damaged by falling missile debris as Kyiv launched a counter attack to bring down four of eight missiles Russian missiles.

• Russia's defense ministry says its forces shot down two drones overnight in the Bryansk and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine.

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Prigozhin confirmed among crash victims

Russia says genetic testing has confirmed the identities of the 10 people who died in a plane crash last Wednesday and that they included the founder of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

"As part of the investigation of the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular-genetic examinations have been completed," Russia's Investigative Committee said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.

The cause of the jet crash is under review. Investigators working on the crash site recovered the private jet's black box.

There has been speculation on pro-Wagner Telegram channels about Prigozhin's fate. He was known to take various security measures in anticipation of a possible attempt on his life.

But he has been seen by some analysts as a dead man walking after staging a mutiny against Russian military commanders two months ago. 

The move was initially described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "stab in the back", but he later met with Prigozhin in the Kremlin. 

Russia said on Saturday Western allegations it orchestrated Prigozhin's killing are an "absolute lie." 

Putin sent his condolences to the families of those killed in the crash last week.

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