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The EU's diplomatic chief Josep Borrell says that Mali's potential plan to hire Russian private-security firm Wagner would "seriously" affect the EU's relations with Bamako. SOUNDBITE
Images show Russian law enforcement blocking access to a road leading to the site of a plane crash which is thought to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner. According to preliminary information, all 10 people on board died, including three crew members, Russian authorities said. Russia's aviation agency later said the Wagner chief was on board the plane. IMAGES
The United States will soon announce measures against Russia's Wagner mercenary group over its past activities in Africa, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says during a news briefing. SOUNDBITE
Wagner's aborted mutiny shows that Moscow's war in Ukraine is splintering Russian power, and instability in the nuclear-armed power is "not a good thing", the EU's top diplomat says. SOUNDBITE
Images from the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites, show tanks, armoured vehicles and Wagner fighters on the streets and around the headquarters of the Southern Military District. IMAGES
Images of Red Square in Moscow and military patrols outside the State Duma as the Wagner mercenary group stages a mutiny, seizing control of military facilities in Rostov-on-Don in the south and vowing to topple Russia's military leadership. IMAGES
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