Representatives of Hamas announced in a telegram the release of an Israeli with Russian citizenship. He was handed over to the Red Cross as part of the exchange of the third group of hostages since November 24. “Hamas released a hostage who had Russian citizenship in response to the efforts of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” TASS quoted a translation of the post from Arabic.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the federal wanted list of Andy Stone, a press secretary of META , which includes Facebook and Instagram . The Mediazon found him in the department’s base, and the card appeared there in February 2023. According to Mediazons, one of the Russian courts in mid -November 2023 also decided to arrest Stone - under an article on the assistance of terrorism (part 2 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

Denis Pushilin, the Russian-appointed head of the occupied part of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, reported power outages and problems in the operation of boiler houses after the night shelling. Pushilin does not specify which areas he is talking about: “Some of the cities and regions of the Republic were left without electricity.

In five regions - Moscow, Tula, Smolensk, Bryansk and Kaluga regions - air defense systems shot down 24 drones at night, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin named the capital as the target of the attack. Thus, in the Moscow region, five drones were shot down near Naro-Fominsk, Odintsovo, Podolsk and Ramenki. “In 3 cases there was damage to buildings on the ground, fortunately, there were no deaths or injuries,” summed up Governor Andrei Vorobyov.