Representative of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko, referring to the country's border service, said that Russian drones that attacked the Izmail port on the night of September 4 fell and exploded on the territory of Romania.

Ksenia Sobchak published a photograph of General Sergei Surovikin, who did not appear in public after the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin. The journalist accompanied the frame with the caption: “Alive, healthy, at home, with family, in Moscow. Today's photo." Before this, at a press conference after negotiations between Putin and Erdogan, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu came out to reporters. When he was asked what was wrong with Surovikin, he did not answer it.

Around 17:00 Moscow time, several users told Kholod about problems with YouTube in Russia. The Roskomsvoboda telegram channel also reported problems with access to the service. failures The Downradar server also recorded . Several MTS subscribers also reported problems with loading YouTube on Twitter. about this wrote Journalist Alexander Plyushchev . He clarified that some MTS subscribers do not have problems accessing the service.

The Supreme Court in annexed Donetsk sentenced Ukrainian serviceman Maxim Ovcharenko to 22 years in a maximum security colony. He was found guilty of cruelty to civilians and the use of prohibited means and methods in an armed conflict and murder. this The Investigative Committee reports . According to investigators, Ovcharenko served in the first reconnaissance company of the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Ukraine’s counteroffensive a “failure.” He said this at a press conference following negotiations with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. “About the stalling of the counteroffensive. This is not a slip, this is a failure. At least this is how it looks today. Let’s see what happens next, I hope that this will be the case,” Putin said.

After Vladimir Putin’s statement about the need to transfer officials to domestically produced cars, Russian government agencies decided to purchase 151 foreign cars for a total amount of more than 566 million rubles. this , citing data from the government procurement portal. reports The Agency According to the publication, 114 cars that government agencies want to purchase are produced by Chinese companies, another 37 by automakers from Japan, Korea and the Czech Republic.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov will leave his post. this in his evening address to the nation on September 3 . stated Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky He proposed appointing the current head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, as the new head of the Ministry of Defense. “I decided to replace the Minister of Defense of Ukraine. Alexey Reznikov went through more than 550 days of full-scale war.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces broke through the first line of Russian defense on the southern front The commander of the Tavria group, General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Tarnavsky, stated this in an interview with The Observer. According to him, the first line of Russian defense was the most fortified.

Representatives of Great Britain, the United States and the European Union will try to convince the authorities of the United Arab Emirates to refuse supplies of dual-use goods to Russia, writes The Wall Street Journal. Before coming to the UAE, the delegation visited Turkey and Kazakhstan for the same purpose. American and European officials cited by the publication say that more and more Western-made goods are being sent to Russia through the United Arab Emirates.

This year, about eight and a half thousand participants in the war in Ukraine and their children were enrolled in Russian universities under a special quota. this at an operational meeting of the government.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported two Ukrainian drones shot down and four landing boats destroyed. “Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty in the air over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula and over the territory of the Kursk region,” reports the department’s telegram channel . They clarified that the drone attacks occurred around 1 am.

Since the announcement of mobilization in Russia in September 2022, 2,930 criminal cases have been opened across the country against mobilized and contract soldiers under articles of crimes against military service. about this , citing the results of their own research. write Sibir.Realii and the Sistema project According to their data, 2,630 cases were opened under the article of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit, and another 200 for refusal to carry out the order of the commander.

The Tosnensky City Court of the Leningrad Region fined businessman Yuri Matsko 2.4 million rubles in the case of damaging a Soviet military burial ground (clause “b” of Part 2 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code). attention to this . drew Mediazona A criminal case against Matsko was opened in June 2021. Then he was the general director of Evrikala. On a plot of land in the Telmanovsky rural settlement owned by this company, workers discovered a military grave from the Second World War.

In the “News of the Week” program dated September 3 on the Rossiya TV channel, there was a story about how builders are helping to protect Moscow from drone attacks. The footage showed an air defense system near Putin's residence. Sergei Sobyanin also took part in the filming of the report; he thanked the builders for their daily work at air defense facilities. Then Vesti correspondent Andrei Medvedev said that some sites for air defense systems in Moscow were built within 24 hours.

A Twitter user said that she was not allowed into the Great Menshikov Palace in Peterhof because she was in a wheelchair and could “scratch the stairs.” The museum staff invited her to stay on the first floor and watch the film. According to the girl, before entering the museum, she and her mother were asked if they could “drag” the stroller up. “Pulling, not lifting, means lifting the stroller on its rear wheels.