Photo from the Kremlin website The Yabloko party distributed a press release from which it follows that the co-founder of the party Grigory Yavlinsky met with Vladimir Putin on Thursday. Earlier, Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov wrote that he saw Yavlinsky in the Kremlin on Wednesday evening. As the press secretary of Yabloko Igor Yakovlev explained to the “agency”, the meeting was after midnight, that is, on Thursday. Details .

Russian troops have managed to advance their offensive towards Avdeevka in the Donetsk region, pro-Russian military bloggers and analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported. The position of Ukrainian troops on this section of the front is becoming more difficult, journalists in the West and Ukraine concluded. Details .

Antronic gun "Pischel-Pro". Press Service of JSC Rosoboronexport Over the 10 months of the second year of the war, Russian state institutions and companies with state participation spent at least 1.06 billion rubles to defense against airplane attacks. These are six times more expenses for the entire previous year (167 million rubles) and 49 times more expenses for the pre-war 2021 (21.5 million rubles), follows from the analysis of the “agency” of the data of the public procurement site.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov admitted that the big money that the Ministry of Defense offers to contract soldiers has become the determining factor for many when entering the service. At the same time, Vladimir Putin said that the reason why people sign a contract is their high patriotism. Details . Peskov cited two reasons why the number of people wishing to serve under a contract is growing.

The former head of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky, visited the Kremlin on Wednesday evening, immediately after Vladimir Putin’s meeting with representatives of religious associations. This was reported by Kremlin pool journalist from Kommersant Andrei Kolesnikov. Earlier, the head of Yabloko, Nikolai Rybakov, said that he considered it necessary to nominate Yavlinsky for the presidential election . Details .