The command of the air forces of Ukraine reported that on the evening of May 4 it shot down its own Bayraktar drone over Kiev, which lost control. According to the command, the drone made a planned flight and at some point lost control. “Since the uncontrolled stay of the UAV in the sky of the capital could lead to undesirable consequences, it was decided to use the calculations of mobile fire teams. Target destroyed! It's a pity, but this is a technique, such cases happen.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the organizers of the drone attack on the Kremlin "will have to answer," but "not today, not tomorrow." about this He wrote in the telegram channel. According to Kadyrov, the drone attack is “a provocation and a compulsion for more massive actions,” which should have led, for example, to “massive carpet bombing” of Ukrainian cities.

In Ankara, a scuffle broke out between members of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations during the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC). The Ukrainian journalist Denis Gorokhovsky posted a video of the incident, which shows a Russian delegate grabbing the Ukrainian flag out of the hands of Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksandr Marikovsky, causing a scuffle between the two delegates.

Chechnya head Ramzan Kadyrov wrote on his personal Telegram channel that Russia “needs to respond” to the organizers of yesterday’s drone attack on the Kremlin, but “not today, not tomorrow.” Kadyrov believes that the drone attack was a “provocation and a cause to take larger scale action,” including, for example, “massive carpet bombing” of Ukraine’s cities.

A Washington jury found four members of the far-right organization Proud Boys guilty of conspiring to mutiny to prevent a peaceful transition of power from former President Donald Trump to Joe Biden, CNN reports. In total, five people appear in the case, but the jury could not reach a verdict against one of the members of the organization, since he did not take an active part in planning the riots.

In Russia, a new “theater business”. Director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk was detained for “justification of terrorism” in their performance Page Zhenya Berkovich on Instagram On May 4, the Investigative Committee detained the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk in the case of “justification of terrorism” due to the play “Finist Yasny Falcon”.

Ukrainian citizen and Crimean Tatar Leniya Umerova, who in December was traveling from Kyiv to Crimea to visit her sick father and was detained, became a suspect in an espionage case. This was reported by the Grati publication with reference to Umerova’s brother Aziz. According to him, Umerova was transported from Vladikavkaz to the Moscow Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. A preventive measure will be chosen for her on May 5. 25-year-old Umerova was detained in early December 2022.

We are talking about the play "Finist Yasny Falcon", which was a reason for a criminal case Valera N. Trubin / Wikimedia Commons On May 4, the director Zhenya Berkovich was detained in Moscow and interrogated in the Investigative Committee - as was originally reported, she went through a witness in the case of justification of terrorism. Later, her status gave way to the suspect. On the morning of May 4, a search was held by the mother of Berkovich in St. Petersburg.

In Ankara, during the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), there was a scuffle between members of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations. The video of the conflict was published by Ukrainian journalist Denis Gorokhovsky. On it, a representative of the Russian delegation pulls out the Ukrainian flag from the hands of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Marikovsky. He attacks him in response. The incident was also reported by the Russian news agency TASS.

On May 4, Moscow residents discovered that GPS services are malfunctioning in the city, according to Telegram channels Baza and Ateo Breaking. State broadcaster RBC reported that Russian Internet giant Yandex confirmed problems with GPS. A Yandex representative said that issues with user location services could be due to a malfunction in the satellite systems that affect everything from navigation to fitness trackers.

Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court fined the Main Radio Frequency Center (MRFC), an agency overseen by Russia’s federal censorship authority Roskomnadzor, for an employee data leak, Interfax reports . The agency was fined 30,000 rubles (about $383).

At least seven teachers have been killed in a school shooting in northwest Pakistan. . reports Al Jazeera This happened shortly after another attack in which another teacher was shot dead. Both incidents took place on May 4 near the city of Parachinar (Kurram district) near the border with Afghanistan. Reuters writes that four teachers and two school employees were killed in the shooting. All of them were Shia Muslims. The previously shot teacher is a Sunni Muslim.

On May 4, residents of Moscow experienced GPS malfunctions, Baza and Ateo Breaking telegram channels report. to RBC journalists Information about problems with GPS was also confirmed in Yandex. A company representative said that the incorrect display of the geolocation of users may be due to malfunctions in the satellite system, which affects all services - from navigators to fitness bracelets.

Mayor of Odesa Gennadiy Trukhanov has been arrested on charges of embezzling more than 92 million hryvnias (around $2.5 million), reports Ukraine’s Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecution (SAP) office. The prosecution alleges that in 2016, the Odesa city council acquired the premises of a bankrupt factory, called Krayan, at an inflated price and tried to withdraw the difference via a fictitious enterprise, reports UNIAN.

So Finnish journalists expect to bypass censorship in Russia The largest publication of Finland, the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper, with the help of gamers built a room in Counter-Strike with information about the invasion of Ukraine in Russian. So journalists expect to convey to the Russians the “real truth about the war” in the context of censorship. This is what came of it.