And what was not according to the protocol? "Important Stories" asked these and other questions to a backward diplomat On Friday, Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky were supposed to sign an agreement on Ukrainian minerals. However, everything fell: answering the questions of journalists, the presidents quarreled live, and Zelensky left without a deal.

The most effective sanctions were unexpectedly the simplest - financial, said Harvard Professor Oleg Itskhoki. “It has become more difficult to both receive payment of export supplies, and pay for imported goods. To a certain extent, we managed to solve this problem, ” said Vladimir Putin. The business really adapted, payments are going - just everything has become more complicated, longer, more expensive.

In 2024, more than 50 thousand soldiers of the RF Armed Forces fled from the army According to the “internal” presentation for Russian officials and lists arbitrarily left part (OSC), the total number of documented cases of “evasion of service” in the Russian army over the past year was about 50.5 thousand. The data was published by the Ukrainian intelligence community Informnapalm and analyzed the OSINT community Frontelgence Insight.

Judges of the US Supreme Court with a minimum advantage (5 votes against 4) did not allow the Donald Trump administration to suspend payments to foreign organizations for the already implemented projects, reports Reuters. Thus, the Supreme Court upheld the decision of Judge Amir Ali (Washington) on the immediate allocation of funding to the recipients of USAID grants (US Agency for International Development) and the State Department for the work already done.

At the same time, Trump did not report when the signing of the mineral transaction passes and whether it would take place at all US President Donald Trump made an appeal to Congress, during which he said that he received a letter of readiness for the world from the President of Ukraine. “My team and I am ready to work under the strong leadership of President Trump to achieve a lasting world,” Zelensky Trump quoted.

During the year, an incomplete grew by 33 thousand people In 2024, every second precinct police resigned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev at an expanded meeting of the board of the department with Putin's participation. “On average, in Russia over the past five years, the number of daily dressing outfits has declined by a quarter. The composition of the district commissioners in six years was almost completely updated.

The level of desertion in the Russian army is comparable to the level of desertion in the American army during the war in Vietnam The total number of documented cases of “evasion from service”, including unauthorized abandonment of the unit (OSC), in the Russian army last year amounted to 50,554, follows from the “internal presentation” for Russian officials and lists in the Southern Military District.

Updated at 16:16 Moscow time: the Ukrainian source of Bloomberg news agency also denies that the United States ceased to transfer intelligence to Ukraine. Sky News reports with reference to the interlocutor in Kiev that the United States has ceased to share only partially with Ukraine. According to the publication, we are talking about information about goals in Russia.