Former UFC fighter and US Special Forces veteran Tim Kennedy was ambushed and wounded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in September, OSINT specialist Atlas News reported. According to the project, Kennedy worked for structures associated with the founder of the American PMC Blackwater. Along with him in the same detachment was a former New Zealand military man who died. According to the publication, the attack could have been carried out by the Russian military from the Afrika Korps.

The capital's Vnukovo and Domodedovo airports actually did not work all night on Friday, according to data from the Federal Air Transport Agency. Taking into account restrictions on Thursday afternoon, over the past 24 hours, two of the three main airports in the capital's air hub did not receive or depart flights until about 11 o'clock. Details . Vnukovo and Zhukovsky airports stopped operating at 00:23 on Friday night.

The Kremlin published photographs of Vladimir Putin with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in front of a Russian stove decorated with horse figurines. Next to the stove there is a samovar and felt boots, and the room is decorated in the style of an old Russian house. According to the Kremlin, Putin invited Schröder “to his home” to celebrate his birthday together. However, the press service did not specify in which house the photograph was taken.

OpenAI said it has identified a Russian propaganda operation with the highest impact score it has disrupted since 2024. Its organizers managed to provoke a reaction from politicians in several countries, which contributed to the aggravation of historical contradictions between Ukraine and Poland. They also ensured that schoolchildren in Ecuador swore allegiance to the country’s president, Daniel Noboa, and the founder of the American Blackwater private military company, Erik Prince.

The Yabloko party could receive 7% of the votes in the State Duma elections, according to a Levada Center poll. Most of her supporters did not support the war. These data contradict Vladimir Putin's post-election claims that the vote was an expression of support for the Russian military. Details. According to a Levada Center study published on Thursday, at the end of August 5% of all Russians surveyed were ready to vote for Yabloko.

At least 30 people died on Thursday in an air attack on Kramatorsk, which hit two regular buses, the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (SSNS) reported. This strike was the deadliest for Kramatorsk since April 2022. Details . According to Ukrainian police, a Russian air bomb fell on a street in Kramatorsk along which two regular buses were traveling. They caught fire, 18 people were injured, 30 died. ️ An apartment building was also damaged during the attack, police said.

The government services portal sent letters to its users inviting them to vote for a locality that will be connected to the mobile Internet in 2027. Two Agency journalists received such letters. Voting has been taking place since 2021, but this year, when large-scale lockdowns have left entire cities without mobile Internet, such a vote looks especially ironic. Details .

There are currently no current plans for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine through US mediation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday. The head of the US State Department, Marco Rubio, also stated that there are no prospects for ending the war in Ukraine through negotiations in an interview published on Thursday. Before the State Duma elections, Kyiv, Washington and Moscow admitted the possibility of resuming trilateral contacts in October. Details.

The number of victims of a Russian missile hitting a five-story building in the city of Priluki, Chernihiv region, by Thursday morning had increased to 22 people, five of whom were children. There have been no more casualties when a rocket hit a residential building in Ukraine since May 14. Another strike, with more deaths, occurred on July 2, but then two houses and several other objects were destroyed at once. Details.

The son-in-law of the Russian Foreign Minister Alexander Vinokurov, oligarchs Suleiman Kerimov, God Nisanov and his influential partner Ilgam Ragimov, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Patrushev are considered as potential contenders for Auchan, Leman PRO (formerly Leroy Merlin), FM Logistic, Nestlé and Metro, Le Monde reported. Details. The publication does not specify how this list was formed.

On Thursday night, after a drone attack on the Ryazan region, a fire started on the territory of the Sasta plant, where one of the Yandex data centers is located. After the strike, Yandex services began to experience disruptions. In recent weeks, data centers have become one of the targets of long-range strikes by the Russian military in Ukraine, along with bridges, gas stations, railway infrastructure, water supply and energy systems. Details.

Billionaire Sergei Shishkarev sold his stake in the Delo group of companies, one of the largest transport and logistics operators in Russia, to Rosatom. The head of Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, has already said that it is planned to create the largest national logistics company. Among the strategic goals, he named the development of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor. Presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev announced the construction of this corridor in March last year.

Residents of Belgorod and nearby settlements, as well as areas bordering Ukraine, began to complain en masse about the long restoration of housing after the Ukrainian attacks. They also say that they have stopped receiving compensation payments for rental housing to replace those lost in the border areas. Dozens of such comments began appearing on Monday under posts by the head of the region, Alexander Shuvaev. Details.

Rospotrebnadzor reported that the World Health Organization (WHO) “published a position on the absence of sanitary and epidemiological risks” due to pneumonia in Irkutsk. The state agencies TASS and RIA Novosti reported this with reference to the Russian department. In fact, the WHO has not stated that there are no risks. Details . A press release from Rospotrebnadzor states that the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the Irkutsk region is calm.

One of the Rosatom managers working in Russia, in a private correspondence with an acquaintance, accused Vladimir Putin of lying and wrote about the state company’s problems during the construction of nuclear power plants in Turkey, Egypt and Bangladesh. The reason was the statement by the Russian President that Russia strictly fulfills all contractual obligations when constructing nuclear facilities abroad. Fragments of the leaked correspondence were published by Politico Details.