In Baghdad, more than 400 wives of members of the Islamic State are on a hunger strike in the Rusafa maximum security prison for the second week. Among them are citizens of Russia. One of them managed to talk to journalists of the BBC Russian Service. The Russian woman ended up in a Baghdad prison in 2018 with her children, after the city of Tel Afar was liberated from the militants of the Islamic State.

The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, recorded a new video message in which he showed the latest losses among the mercenaries and accused the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the lack of ammunition. In the footage, Prigozhin stands in front of the camera in the open air. On the ground behind him are dozens of human bodies in military uniforms stacked in rows. “Here are the guys from Wagner PMC who died today. Still fresh blood.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has arrested 25-year-old Ukrainian citizen and Crimean Tatar Lenia Umerova on charges of "espionage". Mediazona writes about this, referring to the database of Moscow courts. According to the publication, Umerova lived in the Crimea, and after its annexation by Russia, she moved to Kyiv. In December 2022, she decided to return to the peninsula to visit her father, who had cancer.

The founder of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, recorded the second video message to the Russian high military command in a day. In it, he again accused the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of deliberately creating a shortage of ammunition and promised to withdraw his mercenaries from positions in Bakhmut to "rear camps" on May 10. “My guys will not bear useless and unjustified losses without ammunition in Bakhmut,” Prigozhin said.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Worked in Soviet intelligence in East Germany Mikhail Mizintsev was born in 1962 in the Vologda region. In 1980, he graduated from the Kalinin (now Tver) Suvorov Military School and studied at the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command School for the next four years. After graduation, Mizintsev was a platoon commander and then a reconnaissance company commander in East Germany from 1984 to 1989.

We talked with military expert Kirill Mikhailov The counterattack of Ukraine is talking more and more often. And recently he will be announced as something inevitable. The Russian authorities even prepared a training manual for propaganda on how to talk about him on TV. But is Ukraine ready for it? Or is it forced to act because of the political pressure of partners? And the Russian army managed to prepare for the protection of the occupied territories?

The Bali authorities intend to abandon the policy of mass tourism and introduce tourist quotas for the next 100 years. This, according to the local edition detikNews, was announced by the governor of this Indonesian region, Wayan Koster. He explained the need for such measures by the behavior of tourists who “outrage” and break the rules. At the same time, he especially noted Russian tourists who do this more often than others.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow arrested director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk for two months. The day before, both were charged with “publicly justifying terrorism” because of the performance “Finist Yasny Sokol”, staged by Berkovich based on the play by Petriychuk. It tells about the fate of Russian women who decided to virtually marry radical Islamists and go to live with them in Syria.