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The Pentagon says it did not have information supporting theories that a surface-to-air missile was used to shoot down the aircraft of Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin. Reports of a missile are "inaccurate," US Department of Defense spokesman Pat Ryder tells reporters during a briefing. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden visits Israel's missile defence system at Ben Gurion Airport, with caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Israeli expert on technology and innovation Daniel Gold, and Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. Biden started today his first tour of the Middle East since entering the White House last year. IMAGES
Footage released by Moscow show S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems arriving in Belarus, as Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu is in Minsk for talks with strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko and troop inspections ahead of the joint drills scheduled later this month. IMAGES
Rescuers work at the site of a cargo plane crash outside the Russian city of Irkutsk. The Antonov An-12 aircraft "disappeared from radars" during its final approach with seven people on board travelling from Yakutsk. Antonov planes were manufactured during the Soviet era and are still used throughout the former Soviet Union for civilian and military transport, they have been involved in a number of accidents in recent years. IMAGES of emergency workers
Russia announces it has sent a plane loaded with humanitarian aid to the United States, hit hard by the pandemic of the new coronavirus which left more than 4,000 dead. A Russian Air Force Antonov-124, "with medical masks and medical equipment on board, has left for the United States," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. IMAGES of the plane been loaded and taking off from Chkalovsky military air base near Moscow