The “Al-Raid” group “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam Val-Muslimin” on Tuesday for the first time since 2015 attacked the capital of Mali. This may indicate the strengthening of a group in a country considered one of the allies of Russia in Africa. Details. The militants attacked the military police school and the air base in Bamako.

The sword, which is stuck in the chest of the Ukrainian military in photographs published in Z-channels, is identical to the design of one of the swords of the fantasy series of computer games Dragon Age, the analysis of the Agency testifies. The same souvenir weapon is sold in Russian online stores. Details. The blade resembles the Sword of Darkness "Kilgorin", created for the Dragon Age Games, which was released from 2009 to 2014, which used the design of the science artist Kita Ray.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) has obtained correspondence which suggests that Leonid Nevzlin, a former Yukos executive, may have been behind the attack on Alexei Navalny’s associate Leonid Volkov in Vilnius this March. In order to verify the authenticity of this correspondence, the foundation approached two independent editorial boards before making it public.

In St. Petersburg, one of the most prominent anti-war activists in the city, Vitaly Ioffe, was killed, who began going to protests with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. Earlier, his daughter spoke about the threats her father received from the security forces. However, judging by the known information, Ioffe’s death is of a domestic nature - the St. Petersburg LGBT activist Alexandra Sinko (born Alexander) who killed him said that she did it during an attempted rape. Details .

State agencies on Tuesday morning reported the murder by FSB officers of a Russian man who, according to them, was an agent of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war, Russian special services have thus reported the murder of at least 10 citizens of the country who were suspected of preparing terrorist attacks in the interests of the Ukrainian special services.

Maintaining an army of 1.5 million would cost more than 3 trillion rubles annually, roughly double pre-war military spending, according to a report by Dara Massicot, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A decree increasing the size of the army from 1.3 to 1.5 million people was signed by Vladimir Putin on Monday. Details. Spending on Russian military personnel amid the war in Ukraine is higher than ever before, the report says.

The number of Ukrainian and Russian military personnel killed and wounded during the war in Ukraine has reached approximately one million people, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing Western intelligence and Ukrainian officials. The Russian army, according to the newspaper, lost about 600 thousand troops, and the Ukrainian army - 480 thousand. Details .