On the evening of March 21, Russian troops fired four missiles at Odessa, according to preliminary data, X-59, Andriy Yermak, head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said. According to him, two missiles were shot down. One of the rockets that the anti-aircraft defense failed to destroy hit the territory of the monastery, damaging the three-story building, and three people were injured. Where the fourth rocket hit is not specified.

Putin accuses ‘the collective West’ of ‘starting to use weapons with nuclear components.’ What he’s talking about is depleted uranium.

The Lithuanian Parliament in the first reading approved a draft law, which, among other things, provides that applications from citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus for the transition to Lithuanian citizenship will not be accepted, and consideration of already submitted applications will be suspended.

The United States decided to transfer to Ukraine not the latest Abrams tanks, but older models. Thus, according to the Associated Press, Ukraine will be able to receive tanks in 8-10 months. It was originally planned that the United States would transfer 31 of the latest M1A2 Abrams to Ukraine, but their production and delivery would take from one to two years.

On the evening of March 21, a strong earthquake occurred on the territory of Afghanistan. The seismic activity monitoring center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of neighboring Uzbekistan estimated the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.6. The earthquake was also felt on the territory of Uzbekistan itself. In Tashkent, located 561 kilometers from the epicenter of the earthquake, residents, judging by the video on social networks, ran out into the streets.

Oleg Orlov opened a criminal case on the head of the human rights center "Memorial" Julia Morozova / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In Moscow, police officers came with searches for the employees of the Memorial .

Version of military analyst Rob Li Roman Chop / AP / Scanpix / Leta Bakhmut. March 15, 2023 The battle for Bakhmut lasts more than seven months. Despite the promotion of the mercenaries of the Wagner PMC, which make up the main forces of Russia in this direction, the Ukrainian army continues the defense of the city. In early March, the founder of the military company, Evgeny Prigozhin, said that Bakhmut was almost surrounded, and invited the Armed Forces to leave him.

This is what the President of Russia and the chairman of the PRC (spoiler: about the war - nothing specific) Vladimir Putin . The negotiations were successful and passed in a warm friendly atmosphere. Russian-Chinese relations are at the highest level in history. Trade is growing, calculations in national currencies are expanding, we cooperate in energy, in agriculture, in industry. We will develop transport and logistics corridors, interact in the humanitarian sphere.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow arrested Konstantin Novikov for five days, whom the police beat during the dispersal of the presentation of comics by the artist Sasha Skochilenko in Moscow. According to OVD -Info, Novikov was found guilty of disobedience to the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He was sent to serve his sentence in a special detention center in Lyubertsy.

Ivan and Sergey Berezutsky, the two celebrity-chef brothers behind Moscow’s Twins Garden restaurant, are leaving the establishment. An Instagram announcement posted by Ivan Berezutsky on Tuesday marked his last day at the restaurant that made him an international celebrity. When the very first Russian restaurants were rated by the Michelin Guide in 2021, Twins Garden was one of just two places to receive two Michelin stars.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. We are talking with Andrei Pertsev and Fedor Krasheninnikov about the presidential election - 2024. What problems await Russia immediately after them? And what can prevent Putin from staying in power? On March 20, the Chairman of China Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. At the meeting, the leader of China said that he was sure of Putin’s folk support in the presidential election in Russia in 2024.

The Tverskoy District Court registered an administrative case on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), which was brought against D. Yu. Nazarov. I found the Mediazona case card in the database of Moscow courts. The surname and initials of the person involved in the case, the newspaper notes, are the same as those of the actor Dmitry Nazarov, who opposes the war. The hearing in the case of D.Yu. Nazarov has not yet been scheduled.

Putin said that "the collective West is already beginning to use weapons with a nuclear component" Alexey Maishev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The Deputy Minister of Defense of Great Britain Annabel Goldi said that London would give Ukraine shells with impoverished uranium.

This is what is happening around the most discussed Russian premiere of the beginning of the year The series “King and the Jester” at Kinopoisk reached the middle - out of eight episodes of the first season, four had already published .

Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Chinese companies have sold drones and parts for them to Russia for $12 million, The New York Times reports , citing Russian customs data obtained from one of the importing companies. We are talking about 70 Chinese exporters who supplied drones of 26 different brands to Russia. One of these companies is DJI, which the newspaper calls the most famous drone manufacturer.