On the evening of November 19, Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked the Voronezh and Belgorod regions. Drones hit mayonnaise and yogurt factories. RBC reports this. According to the publication, two industrial sites of the Efko company, a large manufacturer of sauces and vegetable oil of the Sloboda and Altero brands, and a plant of the Viola dairy products company were damaged by drone strikes.

Preferential mortgages, which caused real estate prices in Russia to rise over the past four years, were canceled in the summer. Now for many Russians, buying a home is an unaffordable luxury. Against this background, sales of apartments in new buildings with a mortgage in Moscow have decreased by approximately half over the past year, and rental prices have jumped by 22%.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired missiles at the sanatorium of the Russian Presidential Administration in the village of Maryino, Kursk Region. The location of the impact was geolocated by the Agency. The Ukrainian publication Defense Express reported that the strike was the first use of British Storm Shadow missiles against targets deep inside Russia. The sanatorium is located in the historical estate of the Baryatinsky princes, a monument of the 19th century.

Rosaviatsia invited airlines from Qatar and Kuwait to operate domestic flights within Russia. The idea of ​​launching cabotage flights operated by carriers from other countries within one country was voiced at an industry forum in Malaysia, Kommersant writes .

In the Urals, animal rights activists are trying to save a flamingo lost in the taiga. The bird was most likely blown away during the flight from Kazakhstan towards India and Pakistan, the Ekaterinburg animal rescue center “Special Pet” told the publication “Rise”. The flamingo is still a chick, “he’s small, plus there are no relatives nearby - he’s scared,” the center’s staff explained to reporters.

Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine with Donald Trump, but is not ready to make major territorial concessions, and also insists that Kyiv abandon its intentions to join NATO and the presence of alliance troops in the country. This was reported by Reuters citing anonymous sources. According to the agency, five current and former Russian officials said on condition of anonymity that Putin may agree to freeze the conflict along the front line.

US President Joe Biden approved the supply of anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. This was first reported by The Washington Post, citing two unnamed American officials, and then confirmed by the Pentagon. The publication notes that this decision was criticized by the arms control group. According to the newspaper, the Biden administration is "deeply concerned" by Russia's advances on the front in recent weeks and believes the offensive must be contained.

Fraudsters have mastered a new way to gain access to user accounts on the State Services portal. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Beeline rapid response team. “Fraudsters have come up with a new way of deception: they send flowers or another gift to the victim, and a few days later they ask for a “delivery confirmation code,” Beeline representatives told the agency.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) published the results of a study on the level of happiness in Russia. According to a survey in October 2024, 79% of Russians said they felt happy. At the same time, about a third of respondents (31%) consider themselves definitely happy, and almost half (48%) consider themselves somewhat happy. VTsIOM researchers noted that although the influence of seasonality on the perception of happiness is subtle, it can still be traced.

Europe may need $720 billion in defense spending annually, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts estimate. Russian aggression and the presidency of Donald Trump have become the reason that forces European countries to more than double military spending, Bloomberg reported . Analysts have calculated the costs that the 15 largest European NATO member countries will have to bear.

Residents of Russia named the most promising industries in terms of salaries. The oil and gas sector and the IT sector are leading. These, as RBC writes , are the results of a survey conducted by the Renaissance Insurance group (RENI) and the Zarplaty.ru research center. Thus, almost every fourth Russian considers the oil and gas sector the most promising in terms of employment. At the same time, a little more than a fifth of respondents considered the IT sector to be the most promising.

In the Irkutsk region, hunters shot and killed a woman who got out of her car to smoke. They took her for an animal. This was reported by the Shot telegram channel. The incident occurred on the P-255 Siberia highway. According to the telegram channel, the woman’s name was Olga and she was 31 years old. She was traveling with her friend by car from the village of Shumsky to the city of Nizhneudinsk, located about 30 kilometers away.

The decentralized platform Polymarket, which allows users to bet on the outcome of world events and which predicted Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, has begun accepting bets on a nuclear explosion. “Will nuclear weapons be used in 2024?” - this is what the forecast sounds like. At the time of writing, platform users estimated the chances of such an outcome to be 10%. At the same time, the total volume of bets according to this forecast reached almost two million dollars.

According to Gallup polls conducted in Ukraine in August and October of this year, about 52% of Ukrainians would like their country to agree to end the war as soon as possible. The report was published on the company's website. Gallup notes that since 2023, 10-12% of the population of the occupied territories have been excluded from surveys due to the fact that Ukrainian mobile operators do not work there.

Billionaire Xavier Niel, founder of the large telecommunications company Iliad, responded to a challenge from a gamer who challenged the businessman to a fight, outraged by the poor quality of the Internet connection. The gamer himself did not come to the arrow, reported the publication Afisha Daily. French Internet user Iliad under the nickname Fuego wrote a tweet in X in May inviting Niel personally “one-on-one to the Lidl store on Rue Sainte” in Marseille.