At least 223 flights were canceled at Moscow airports on Friday and another 233 were delayed, one of the biggest disruptions since early October. The mass cancellations were caused by the second largest (according to statistics from the mayor of Moscow) drone raid on the capital since the beginning of the year. The attack occurred after three days of international events, to which Vladimir Putin dedicated the beginning of the week.

The Russian anti-plague institute in Irkutsk, whose employee Daria Shipilova died in early October of what authorities say was pneumonia of unknown origin, has been receiving warnings about safety violations for more than a decade. Among the complaints of the supervisory authorities are the lack of a complete emergency plan in case of emergency, insufficient training of management and the lack of means for disinfecting premises and equipment. Details .

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and the US President's son-in-law Jared Kushner agreed with Kiev back in September on a plan according to which Great Britain, France and Germany should represent Europe in peace negotiations with Russia, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Friday. However, European countries have not yet agreed on such a format. Moreover, Helsinki and Oslo last week tried to become a separate party to these negotiations.

In Crimea and Sevastopol, restrictions on the sale of fuel have been completely lifted, Izvestia reported on Thursday. This information contradicts reports from the Crimean authorities: on October 29, the administrations of several cities published gasoline sales schedules with a limit of 20 liters per car. The so-called land corridor to Crimea, used to deliver fuel, continues to be under Ukrainian attacks, OSINT researchers say. Details.

Speaking at a press conference following the Russia-Africa summit, Vladimir Putin for the first time personally commented on the conversation with the President of Finland Alexander Stubb and the Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gara Støre. The Russian leader assessed him positively, contrasting his interlocutors with supporters of the “strategic defeat of Russia” in Europe.

It will be possible to leave Aleshki (Ukrainian name Oleshki) until 14:00, said Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Yana Lantratova. The same message appeared in the telegram channel of the Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets. A gathering of residents is scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday at the city hospital, the Kryla Foundation said . Details. Demining of routes for the humanitarian mission in Aleshki has been completed, Lantratova wrote in her Max channel.

At a gathering of military clergy in Mozhaisk, a drone detection system was presented, the developer of which was the deacon of the church at MGIMO Nikolai Melnichuk. The military department of the Moscow Patriarchate (MP) announced this on Wednesday, calling the development a response to the call of Patriarch Kirill. Melnichuk, in a conversation with the editor of the Agency, called himself the only priest involved in developments for the military.

Vladimir Putin posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia to the commander of the Akhmat battalion and former Wagner PMC mercenary Zelimkhan Batukaev. The award was presented to Batukaev's mother at a ceremony in Grozny on Thursday. Batukaev went to war from a colony, where he was sent in 2016 for participating in the murder of a taxi driver. Details.

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation is preparing mandatory IMEI registration of smartphones imported into Russia without customs clearance, as well as counterfeit devices. Previously, the department called messages about the mandatory registration of phones by citizens “fake.” This is the third prohibitive initiative in a week that the authorities are returning to. The new rules may primarily affect iPhone owners. Details .

The State Duma on Thursday adopted the budget in the first reading. During the discussion, the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov came out with the harshest criticism of the document. He said that half of the 43 trillion rubles in Russian federal budget revenues next year will go to finance the war. Details. 372 out of 423 deputies voted for the draft budget in the first reading, and 51 parliamentarians abstained.

Vladimir Putin, during his speeches at the Russia-Africa summit in Moscow, quoted at least two African leaders from the Soviet era. Both were written about in the Soviet press when the president served in the KGB. Quotes : ️ October 28 : “ There are active attempts by Western countries to drive Africans back into debt bondage, to impose on them much-needed financial resources on extortionate terms...

The temporary members of the UN Security Council stand for dialogue and diplomacy on Ukraine, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Chilombo said at the Russia-Africa summit, addressing Vladimir Putin. Quote. “Your Excellency, the non-permanent members of the Security Council for the period 2026-2027, which is our country, are constantly looking for informed decisions regarding Ukraine and the Middle East.

Priests held an aerial religious procession with the relics of St. George the Victorious over a section of the front line where the West group of troops is fighting, the military department of the Moscow Patriarchate reported. Units of the “West” group are deployed in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions, where, as a result of counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian military lost control over an area of ​​up to 277 square meters. km. Details.

Over the regions of Russia on Thursday night, 1,214 drones were shot down, the country's Ministry of Defense reported . Based on the reported number of drones destroyed, this attack was the largest since the beginning of the war. The raid on Moscow turned out to be one of the largest, as follows from the message of Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

The president of the Blackhawks group of companies, Vladimir Sokolov, runs a network of intermediaries that supplies workers from the DPRK to Russian enterprises, bypassing UN sanctions, the international legal organization Global Rights Compliance (GRC) has found out. Sokolov is an assistant to State Duma deputy from United Russia and ex-world chess champion Anatoly Karpov. Details.