In the Shebekinsky urban district, which borders Ukraine, Lepestok mines were found. Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported this during a live broadcast on VKontakte . "We had several attacks on the territory of the Shebekinsky urban district in the area of ​​(the village of) Sereda, so we still cannot make a decision on the return of residents there. And the "petals" were scattered in large quantities and at a great distance.

‘Stars Coffee’ opens first location in Moscow following rebrand under new ownership Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS The first Stars Coffee location had its grand opening in downtown Moscow on Thursday, August 18, marking the relaunch of the cafe chain previously owned by Starbucks. The American coffeehouse company announced its exit from Russia in late May, joining the mass withdrawal of foreign companies from the Russian market that followed Moscow's full-blown invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has published a new draft order that would expand the list of types of information that could be “used to threaten the security of the Russian Federation” if given to foreign entities. The document proposes adding information about the “transfer, transportation routes, and movement” of Russian troops to the list. The current version of the list refers only to “information about the deployment, organizational structure, armament, and number" of troops.

The air defense system worked in Kerch in the east of Crimea. This was announced by the adviser to the head of the region Oleg Kryuchkov. “Preliminarily. Air defense systems worked in Kerch. There will be dangers for the city and (Krymsky),” he wrote in his telegram channel. At the same time, the adviser to the head of the Crimea did not specify why the systems worked.

Negotiations with the Russian Federation are possible if Russian troops leave the occupied territories of Ukraine. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General António Guterres in Lviv. According to Zelensky, Erdogan said during the meeting that the initiative to export Ukrainian grain provides a “diplomatic window” for agreements to end the war.

The air defense system in the eastern Crimean city of Kerch was activated on Thursday night, according to Oleg Kriuchkov, an advisor to the Moscow-backed head of Crimea. Kriuchkov said that there’s currently no threat to the city or to the Crimean Bridge. The Kerch city administration’s press service reported that car alarms went off after a sound similar to a thunderclap was heard. A video circulating online appears to show interceptors from the city’s air defense system.

Update: Belgorod Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced during a livestream on Thursday that due to the “growing threat," schools in the border area will switch to remote learning on September 1. PFM-1 land mines were found in Russia’s Belgorod region on Thursday, according to Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. “A great number of ‘petals’ [referring to the weapons’ shape and light weight] were scattered over a large area.

An ammunition depot caught fire near the village of Timonovo in the Belgorod region. According to the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov, there were no injured or dead. Emergency services are on the scene of the fire. The cause of the fire is being established. Residents of the villages of Timonovo and Soloti are taken to a safe distance, Gladkov said. Videos are being posted on social media of alleged explosions at a warehouse on fire.

As war against Ukraine stalls, Kremlin officials mull delaying ‘referendums’ in occupied territories Sergey Bobylev / TASS A Russian military vehicle in the occupied city of Kherson. July 26, 2022. Story by Andrey Pertsev. Abridged translation by Eilish Hart. Russia’s war against Ukraine appears to have reached a deadlock .

Forward Artem Dziuba has signed a contract with the Turkish football club Adana Demirspor, according to the team's twitter. The contract with the 33-year-old Russian football players is designed for one season with the possibility of extending for another one. After the completion of the Russian championship of the 2021/22 season, Artem Dzyuba announced that he was leaving Zenit, where he had been playing since the summer of 2015 and was the team captain.

The Russian Foreign Ministry has rejected a proposal from UN Secretary-General António Guterres to create a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Ministry spokesperson Ivan Nechayev claimed demilitarization would make the facility “even more vulnerable,” according to Interfax . The rejection came on the same day that Guterres met for talks with Ukraine’s President Zelensky in Ukraine.

Now she is called upon to make a drug test Matias Honkamaa / Lehtikuva / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Prime Minister Finland Sanna Marin at a press conference on August 18, 2022 In social networks, a video from the party was published, where the 36-year-old Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin sings and dances with Finnish celebrities. On the evening of August 17, local newspapers Iltalehti and Ilta-Sanomat wrote.

Experimental mobile field churches will be created for believing Russian soldiers, the main military-political directorate of the Russian Armed Forces reported. According to Interfax, the Russian military gave such a technical task to the Mobile Complexes and Systems design bureau. The bureau is to create a model of a mobile temple based on the UAZ Patriot car, as well as a model of a field temple based on an army tent.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , and UN Secretary-General António Guterres held a meeting at Lviv’s Potocki Palace on Thursday, August 17. The talks marked Erdogan’s first visit to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale war in February. At the meeting, Turkey and Ukraine reportedly signed a memorandum on Turkey’s participation in the reconstruction of Ukrainian infrastructure destroyed by the war.

The Federal Security Service of Russia proposed to change the list of information that does not constitute a state secret, which, when transferred to foreign sources, "can be used against the security of the Russian Federation." The draft order of the FSB says that such information is proposed to include data on "transportation, transportation routes and movement" of Russian troops.