The special committee investigating the 2021 attack on the US Capitol has decided to summon the 45th US President Donald Trump to a hearing on the matter. The seven Democrats and two Republicans on the committee voted unanimously to issue a subpoena to Trump, Reuters reported. The committee members want the former president to provide some documents and testify under oath about the events of January 6, 2021. "He's the one person who is at the center of the story of what happened on January 6th.

Several areas within Kharkiv are without power after missile strikes on the evening of October 13, the local power company reported. The company noted that it’s working to restore service. Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, also reported problems with the electricity supply in some areas. He said that the city experienced at least two missile strikes. Oleh Synyehubov, governor of the Kharkiv region, also reports Russian troops shooting in the region.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he had appointed businessman Artem Chaika, the son of former Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, as his advisor on humanitarian, social and economic issues.

The five Chelyabinsk-region conscripts killed almost immediately after mobilization, were sent to the front without combat training of any kind. BBC News Russian reported this, citing the friends and relatives of the men recently acknowledged dead.

The head of one of the departments in the Moscow government, Alexei Martynov, died on October 10 in Ukraine. This was announced by the deputy editor-in-chief of the RT channel Natalya Loseva. According to her, the deceased was 28 years old. “Mobilized on September 23rd. In his youth, he served in the Semyonovsky regiment (this is where you need to march). Zero combat experience. He was sent to the front almost a few days later, ”said Loseva.

Some areas of Kharkiv were left without electricity due to rocket attacks on the evening of October 13, reported Kharkovoblenergo . The company noted that they are working to restore the supply of electricity. Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov also said that in some areas of the city there were problems with electricity supply. According to him, at least two missile strikes were carried out on the city.

A Petersburg woman is under house arrest after leaving a note on Putin’s parents’ grave Mediazona Irina Tsybaneva in court A Petersburg woman has been placed under house arrest for leaving a note on the grave of Maria and Vladimir Putin, parents of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The Latvian Foreign Minister rejected the prosecution and stated that the organization "lost all trust" Ints Kalnins / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Latvian border guard looks at detained migrants who crossed the Belarusian-Latvian border, near the village of Vorzova, Latvia.

Putin’s proxy scheme for lavishing wealth on the former Olympic gymnast Gavriil Grigorov / TASS Alina Kabaeva The former Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva never made public claims of being in a relationship with Vladimir Putin. And yet, in 2008, their forthcoming “wedding of the century” was announced by the Moscow Correspondent — a tabloid that was instantly rebuked by Putin personally, and completely shuttered all of 10 days after the offending publication.

Aleksey Martynov, the head of a department within the Moscow city government, was killed on October 10 in Ukraine, reports Natalya Loseva, deputy editorial director at the RT television channel. According to Loseva, he was 28. “He was mobilized on September 23. In his youth he served in the Semyonovsky Regiment [which provides security to the Russian president and the Kremlin]. He had no combat experience. He was sent to the front after basically a few days,” Loseva said.

A house in Portugal, which, according to the team of Alexei Navalny, belongs to the family of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, was put up for sale for 10 million euros. In the film-investigation of the oppositionist's associates, he was estimated at 1.2 million euros. “It turned out that we criminally underestimated its cost - more than eight times!” - this is how Georgy Alburov commented on the situation.

Update. The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said that in the village of the Belgorod region "as a result of the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an ammunition depot was blown up." “There was a detonation. According to preliminary data, there are no victims or injured," Gladkov said. He did not specify the name of the village.

Zelensky in an interview with ZDF - about Putin, war scripts and the risk of nuclear weapons Press Service of the President of Ukraine / Planet Pix / Zuma Press Wire / Scanpix / Leta The correspondent of the German ZDF German television channel Katrin Aygendorf interviewed the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on October 12.

Five residents of the Chelyabinsk region, who died shortly after being called up for mobilization, hit the front in Ukraine without any preparation, the BBC Russian Service claims, citing the words of relatives and friends of the victims.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, told Parlamentskaya Gazeta that now fathers with many children will be able to get a deferment from mobilization, provided that they have three dependent children, and not four, as was required before. “This is essentially a gesture of goodwill from the Department of Defense.