Growing indications that some of Russia's top generals were aware of plans for a revolt by the Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin are adding pressure on President Vladimir Putin to decide whom to punish.
One of the Russian military aircraft reportedly shot down during the weekend's rebellion by Wagner mercenary forces was a "special mission aircraft" with a key role in Russia's war in Ukraine, the British defense ministry said on Thursday.
A Russian missile strike on a popular restaurant in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, came when the place was bustling: a young mother with a baby in a stroller, a woman making kissing noises at a husky dog, filming a video of herself on the terrace. The attack showed the peril of trying to claim pieces of ordinary life during the war.