During the year of the war in Ukraine, Russia lost at least 15,136 troops. This follows from the list of the dead, which is maintained by Mediazona, the BBC and a team of volunteers. The officially recognized losses of the USSR in Afghanistan for nine years amounted to 15,051 people. And during the two Chechen campaigns, less than 11,000 Russian soldiers were killed. The compilers of the list note that the actual number of losses may be several times higher.

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, serving a 23-year sentence for rape, has been sentenced to another 16 years in prison. In December 2022, a jury in Los Angeles found Weinstein guilty of another rape and two episodes of sexualized violence, which he committed in 2013 against a certain former model (her name is not disclosed - Approx. "Cold"). On one count he was acquitted, on another rape case, the jury did not reach a unanimous opinion.

On the morning of February 24, in St. Petersburg, at the entrance to the Gostiny Dvor metro station, a 50-year-old man, whose name was not released, fired a traumatic pistol into the chest of an OMON officer on duty there. This was reported in the press service of the Investigative Committee. The department clarified that the security officer was hospitalized, and the shooter was detained.

The US authorities announced their intention to provide Ukraine with a new $2 billion military aid package. Jake Sullivan, National Security Adviser to the President of the United States, announced this. “We will continue to look at what is needed to make sure we provide Ukraine with everything it needs to succeed on the battlefield,” he said.

On February 21, at a pro-government rally-concert in Luzhniki, several Ukrainian children stood on the stage next to a volunteer from Chelyabinsk, Yuri Gagarin, with the call sign Angel. The military man was presented as the savior of 367 children from Mariupol, and the children themselves hugged and thanked him on stage. "Important Stories" found some of them.

Publicist Ivan Davydov - about how he lived in Russia the most terrible year After the start of the war, the poet and publicist Ivan Davydov remained in Russia and continued to write honest texts about what is happening inside the country. A year later, at the request of the Cold, he tells what it is. In order not to miss the main materials of the "cold", subscribe to our Instagram and telegram . February 24, 2022. I remember this day almost permanently.

In different cities of Russia and the world, anti-war actions are being held to mark the anniversary of the start of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Thus, hundreds of people with Ukrainian flags and anti-war posters came to the rally in Haifa, Israel, and on Freedom Square in the Latvian capital Riga. In Russia, people continue to bring flowers to spontaneous memorials dedicated to the memory of Ukrainians who died as a result of Russian aggression.

On the anniversary of the war, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky held a large press conference in Kyiv entitled “The Year of Unbreakability”, to which, among other things, foreign journalists were invited. He didn't make a speech and went straight to the questions. Asked by a CNN reporter why he believes the war in Ukraine will end in 2023, Zelenskiy said that such an outcome is possible with the support of international partners.

Andrey Medvedev, a former Wagner PMC fighter who previously illegally crossed the Norwegian border and asked for political asylum, was arrested for fighting and attacking police officers. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta Europe with reference to the court ruling. According to the Norwegian police, on the night of February 22, Medvedev got into a fight near a bar in the center of Oslo and was detained.

On the morning of February 24, in St. Petersburg, at the entrance to the Gostiny Dvor metro station, a man shot at an ensign of the National Guard. The security officer was hospitalized with a wound in the stomach, and the shooter was detained on the spot. Later, 47news reported that the shooter was Tigran Khachikyan, a 50-year-old resident of St. Petersburg. According to the publication, Khachikyan graduated from the Leningrad Higher Naval Engineering School named after Lenin.

12 months of horror, pain, violence and heroism: the main shots Exactly a year ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia began a full -scale military invasion of Ukraine. Every day of the war, photographers documented what happened to the Ukrainians: aggression and resistance of aggression, war crimes and broken lives, destroyed cities and millions of refugees. "Cold" chose the main photos of these 12 months.

A court in the United States has sentenced singer Ar Kelly, who became world famous thanks to the song I Believe I Can Fly, to 20 years in prison on charges of producing child pornography and seducing minors. At the moment, the musician is already serving a 30-year sentence in the case of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation and racketeering.