The governments of the European Union have agreed on a ninth package of sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, Reuters and Agence France-Presse reported, citing European diplomats. According to Reuters sources, the formal written approval procedure will be completed before midday on December 16. The agencies' interlocutors did not provide other details. The approval of new restrictions has not yet been officially announced.

More than a thousand passengers are unable to fly from Moscow’s Vnukovo airport to Egypt on flights of the Russian airline iFly for several hours. The same number of tourists are waiting for export flights, the carrier’s press service told RBC. iFly F7 711/712, F7 707 and F7 709 flights from Moscow to Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada were scheduled for 03:30, 06:55 and 09:30 Moscow time on December 15.

Participants in the summit of EU leaders have agreed to grant Bosnia and Herzegovina candidate status for EU membership, Agence France-Presse and Radio Liberty journalist Rikard Jozwiak reported. The European Commission recommended that Bosnia and Herzegovina be granted candidate status for EU membership in October. The EU Council made a similar recommendation on 13 December.

In Armenia’s southeast, local residents are still reeling from September’s attacks Story by Teresa Di Mauro for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart. Rising tensions between Azerbaijan and Armenia are stoking fears of renewed conflict, just when the two sides were supposed to be hammering out a peace deal and delineating their shared border.

The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin made changes to the composition of the Board of Trustees of the Krug Dobra Foundation. The corresponding decree was published on December 15. Actresses Chulpan Khamatova and Ksenia Rappoport, director of the Old Age for Joy Foundation Elizaveta Oleskina and a former State Duma deputy from United Russia, hematologist Larisa Fechina have been excluded from the Board of Trustees.

A sample form, which employees could use to request that one day’s worth of their wages be directed instead to the Russian military, was sent around departments at Voronezh State University. The publication 7×7 Gorizontalnaya Rossiya published photos of the template form. According to the text of the document, the money will be sent to the Voronezh Social Support Fund.

A new Chechen separatist army is being formed in Ukraine, but beating Russia in the Donbas is easier than deposing Ramzan Kadyrov By Neil Hauer ( @NeilPHauer ) Amid Ukraine’s war for freedom against Russia’s invasion, another nation is also gathering its forces for a fresh attempt to break free of Moscow’s grasp: the Chechens.

The US authorities announced the expansion of restrictions against Russia. The sanctions list includes a Russian businessman, the head of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, and his holding Interros. This was announced by the US Treasury. under the sanctions Other assets of the businessman also fell - a yacht and Rosbank, as well as members of his family - wife Ekaterina, son Ivan and daughter Anastasia.

The chief commandant of the Polish police, Yaroslav Shimchik, was injured in an explosion at the headquarters of the department. He received minor injuries and is in the hospital, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country. The explosion took place on December 14 in a room next to Shimchik's office.

Job postings seeking workers to build fortifications and dig trenches in the occupied parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk regions as well as in Russia’s Belgorod region have begun appearing on Russian social media and job sites. The postings offer work on a rotating basis with salaries between 89,000 rubles ($1,380) and 258,000 rubles ($4,000) monthly. Despite the higher-than-average wages, most of the ads don’t include any worker requirements, including prior experience.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Lachinsky corridor leading in Karabakh is blocked by Azerbaijan. Armenian politicians talk about the threat of genocide and compare this with the "blockade of Leningrad." What is happening there? On December 13, the Armenian Foreign Ministry spoke about the group of unknown people from Azerbaijan, who introduced themselves to eco -activists and blocked the Lachin corridor - the only road between Nagorno -Karabakh and Armenia.

In Kherson they found a "children's camera." Here is the story of her 14-year-old prisoner Subscribe to our Utuub channel Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets said that in the liberated Kherson they found a camera where minors were held. “We first recorded the fact of torture of children,” the Ombudsman said. According to the Lubinz, the children were given water in a day, “practically did not feed” and said that their parents allegedly refused them.

The main thing from the investigation of "important stories", Reuters and Rusi Vadim Savitsky / TASS Ulitorate "Orlan-10" The manufacturer of the “Orlan-10” drones, which the Russian army uses in Ukraine, purchases foreign components through intermediary firms in the USA, China and Russia.

The Ukrainian project “I want to live” helps the Russian military surrender. This is how it works The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / TASS liberated Russian military, as well as fighters of the occupied DPR and LPR former in Ukrainian captivity, leave the plane. According to Russian telegram channels, the board landed at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. It seems that in 2022 no one doubts that "politics is a dirty business." But why are we generally sure that the authorities should be honest? Declaring the war to Ukraine, Vladimir Putin on February 24 was indignant at the actions of the West and the expansion of NATO east. “I repeat - they deceived, and expressed in the popular language, they simply threw it. Yes, you can often hear that politics is a dirty business.