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The Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is "alive, well, and free" in an unnamed country, Dr Valery Solovey, a political analyst, said as he believes it was his body double who died

Footage has emerged of Yevgeny Prigozhin saying "if these screws are not adjusted today, then the whole plane will fall apart in the sky" months before he died in an aircraft crash in Russia

Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko alleged he had received intelligence of a plot to wipe out the Wagner Group founder and sent a message to him via the Kremlin

The Wagner boss and former ally of Vladimir Putin staged an armed revolt against the Kremlin regime back in June, but was later forced to abandon his plotted coup and go into hiding

A video of the horror crash shows the light aircraft - which was reportedly owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin - falling out of the skies in Bologovsky, Tver, before another clip showed the burning wreck smoking in a field

The drone attack saw a military UAV rip through the tenth floor of the new One Tower in Moscow - marking the sixth consecutive day Ukraine has targeted the Russian capital

At least eight people are feared to be dead while touring Moscow’s underground sewers, when torrential rain turned the Russian channels into raging subterranean rivers

The Kremlin says it foiled attacks by two Ukrainian drones in the Moscow region, but nearly 50 plane flights in and out of the capital from the four main airports were disrupted

Russian Mikhail Marov, 90, described as a key consultant to the mission, was rushed to hospital after he demanded that there was no cover-up for the reasons the Moon mission ended in disaster

The Luna 25, an unmanned craft, was due to make a soft landing on the Moon's south pole but while entering a pre-landing orbit ran into issues

A major railway station in Russia was hit today by a suspected Ukrainian kamikaze drone strike, as Russia said this was one of three areas drones had struck on Sunday, forcing two of Moscow’s airports to divert flights

Alexei Khlebnikov, 35, officially hailed a "hero" for his service in the war in Ukraine, went on the run in the Volgograd region after being accused of rape

Two drones were seen buzzing over Moscow's airspace, causing aviation officials to shut down Vnukovo international airport in Russia's Kaluga City

Pupils will now be taught that Ukraine is an "ultra-nationalist state" where "any dissent is severely persecuted" and "opposition is prohibited" - arguably more fitting to Putin’s Russia

The vessel's engine room sustained damage in the strike on Friday night in the Black Sea near Crimea and, though 11 crew members were on board, there were no severe casualties

Journalist George Knapp told Congress that the Russian military has had a number of run-ins with UFOS since the late 1960s including a terrifying incident at a missile silo in Ukraine

The capital's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said several drones were shot down overnight but one escaped defences and "flew into the same tower at the Moskva City complex" that was targeted on Sunday

Residents and employees wailed as explosions tore apart several floors of a major skyscraper in the centre of Moscow today - in an attack which Russian officials blamed on Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin's war chief arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday evening and was greeted by senior North Korean officials including Defense Minister Kang Sun Nam

Vladimir Putin took part in a prayer 'for granting victory to the Russian army' at the sacred Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam monastery, appearing to limp as he walked into the church

The high-rise building was set ablaze in the Russian capital after drone attacks suspected to have been orchestrated by Ukraine targeted Russian Defence Ministry facilities

Uma Mirzayeva, 29, was questioned when Mika Shabasova, 22, died after going under local anaesthetic while receiving the procedure in Russia

Anton Cherepennikov was head of the country's largest IT company, ICS Holding, which was used by Russia's Federal Security Service for surveillance of citizens' online activities

Mika Shabasova, 22, reportedly died 10 minutes after she was administered local anaesthetic for the procedure at a beautician's "home surgery" in Makhachkala, Russia

Mikhail Murashko, Vladimir Putin's health minister as well as a doctor specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology, has said it is "improper" to delay childbirth for education, a career and money