RT News - August 24 2023 (09:00 MSK)

The leaders of the BRICS bloc debate the issues of the alliance's economic growth as well as membership expansion with security and a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine crisis also on the agenda during the plenary session. Here in Johannesburg, we're bringing you special coverage of the BRICS summit, as it enters its third - and final - day. A BRICS Plus dialogue session will be held today with five leaders participating in the meeting. Wagner military group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is officially listed as a passenger in a deadly plane crash in Russia's Tver region, just north of Moscow. But it hasn't been confirmed if he was actually on board. RT reports from the aftermath of Ukrainian shelling in the city of Donetsk, with civilian areas in the region targeted once again.