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These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Thursday, August 24.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin sent condolences to families of those killed in a plane crash without confirming by name if Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv was not involved in the reported death of Prigozhin.
- Prigozhin was listed among the 10 passengers reportedly killed when a private jet crashed north of Moscow. The Kremlin has not yet confirmed his death.
- Zelenskyy marks Ukraine’s independence day by calling it the “day of the free, the strong and the dignified”.
- Ukraine’s military intelligence says Kyiv carried out a “special military operation” in Russian-occupied Crimea overnight, in which personnel also landed on the Crimean peninsula.