This can violate the export trade of Russia AP / Scanpix / Leta attack on the large landing ship of the Olenegorsk miner on the Raid of Novorossiysk on the night of August 4.

On August 5, Saudi Arabia began hosting two-day peace talks on Russia’s war against Ukraine, reports Reuters. The Saudi government channel Al-Ekhbariya also announced the beginning of the talks. The head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Andriy Yermak, posted Ukrainian and Saudi flag emojis on his Telegram channel. Reuters noted that high-level officials from around 40 countries are taking part in the talks. Ukraine will present President Volodymyr Zelensky’s peace formula.

On the evening of August 5, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Ukraine. The Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that the Russian Army launched Kinzhal hypersonic missiles from the Tambov area. Ukrainian media reported explosions in the Khmelnitsky and Zhytomyr regions. The head of the Zaporozhye regional military administration, Yuriy Malashko , said that Russian troops shelled Zaporozhye.

Russia’s Defense Ministry reported that it dispatched a Su-30 fighter jet after detecting a drone flying over the Black Sea approaching the Russian border. The drone, which was identified as a MQ-9A Reaper reconnaissance drone belonging to the U.S. Air Force, turned away from the border as the Russian fighter jet approached, reports the Ministry.

A graduate of the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University, Elizaveta Antonova, who held a rally in support of journalist Elena Milashina, said that she did not enter the university’s master’s program because her entrance scores were lowered. She told “Paper” about this. The admissions committee gave the journalist 29 points, while the minimum threshold for admission to the master's program is 30 points.

The death toll from a landslide in the Shovi resort in Georgia's mountainous Racha region has risen to 16, Georgia's Channel One reported , citing the Interior Ministry. The Russian Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy in Georgia reported the death of a Russian citizen in a landslide. “According to information received today, Ksenia Tricheva was found dead - one of her close friends identified her body in the morgue,” the statement said .

The Russian tanker SIG was damaged by a naval drone attack while approaching the Kerch Strait, according to Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transportation . The agency said the attack occurred on August 4 at 11:20 p.m. local time. The ship’s crew was not injured in the attack and the ship remains afloat, says the agency.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said it scrambled a Su-30 fighter after it detected an “air target” over the Black Sea approaching the Russian border. This was reported on the department’s telegram channel. According to the Ministry of Defense, the aerial target turned out to be an MQ-9A Reaper reconnaissance drone of the US Air Force. The agency claims that when the Russian fighter approached, the drone “made a U-turn” away from the Russian border.

Ukraine has declared the waters of six Russian ports on the Black Sea to be zones of military threat, according to a warning issued on August 4, writes Economichna Pravda. This warning applies to the internal and external waters of the Russian ports of Anapa, Novorossiysk, Gelendzhik, Tuapse, Sochi, and Taman.

Two-day talks on a peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine began in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on August 5, Reuters reports . The start of the talks was also reported by the Saudi state television channel Al-Ekhbariya. After media reports about the start of the talks, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, published an emoji of the Ukrainian and Saudi flags on his Telegram channel.

The data of users of the Liters e-book service has been made publicly available. This was reported by the “Information Leaks” telegram channel. We are talking about more than three million lines, which include first and last names, email addresses, hashed passwords. “We checked the random email addresses from this file through the password recovery function on the website litres.ru and found that they were valid,” the telegram channel said in a message. Litres confirmed the leak of user data.

The Moscow City Court has released politician Alexei Navalny from criminal liability for four episodes of the "extremism" case due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. This was announced on August 4 by Moscow City Court judge Andrei Suvorov, reading out the politician's sentence, Mediazona noted . The publication has reviewed the audio recording from the court.

A fantastic film in which the drug dealer, pimp and sex worker reveal a government conspiracy Parrish Lewis / Netflix On July 21, on the day of the Barbie and Oppenheimer premiere, Netflix quietly released the film “They cloned Tyrone” - the original Sifai with Jamie Fox and John Boyga about the conspiracy against the non -fictional population of one fictional region.

Earlier this summer, the Russian state censorship authority had asked Apple to block the show Update: Two days after it was removed, “What Happened” is again available on the Apple Podcasts streaming platform. Apple did not provide a reason for suddenly removing and restoring the podcast. Meduza has received a notice from Apple, informing our media that our flagship podcast “What Happened” has been removed from the Apple Podcasts streaming platform.

In the capital of the country, a rally was held in support of the coup - with posters "Long live Putin" Djibo Issifou / DPA / Picture-alliance / Scanpix / Leta Demonstration in the city of Niamay, the capital of Niger, in support of the military coup.