Russia’s Defense Ministry reports that service members on the Vasily Bykov, a patrol vessel in the Black Sea Fleet, fired warning shots to stop the cargo ship the Sukra Okan in the Black Sea. The incident occurred on August 13, around 6:40 a.m. Moscow time in the south-western part of the Black Sea.

Russia’s Defense Ministry says that Russian troops intercepted three attempts by Ukraine to hit targets inside Russia with drones on August 13. At 11:00 a.m. on August 13, according to the Defense Ministry, Russia’s air defenses shot down one drone over the Belgorod region and another, at 11:30 a.m., over the Kursk region. Later, the ministry reported shooting down a second drone over Belgorod at 1:30 p.m. The ministry says none of the attempted attacks resulted in casualties or damage.

At least five people were killed by shelling in Shyroka Balka, a village outside of Kherson, on the morning of August 13, reports Ukraine Internal Affairs Minister Ihor Klymenko. According to Klymenko, artillery fire in the village killed a resident as well as a family of four — a couple and their 23-day-old daughter died immediately, and their 12-year-old son died in the hospital after sustaining injuries that left him in critical condition.

Residents of Belgorod reported hearing explosions in the city, and photos showing a damaged apartment building and car appeared on local social media pages on August 13. The cause of the explosion is unclear. Witnesses told a local Telegram channel that they saw a drone in flight and then heard the explosion. Photos taken by witnesses show damage to the windows of apartments on three separate floors of the building, reports Telegram channel 112.

The Mariupol city council reports that a shootout took place in the village of Urzuf, which Russia has annexed, in the Mariupol district of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, between soldiers from Chechnya and representatives of the local “commander’s office.” According to the Mariupol authorities, the Urzuf shootout, which occurred on August 11, killed at least four Russian soldiers. There were also deaths and injuries among the civilian population.

In the 1990s, he was a pirate and showed film prisoners Western life. In 2020-supported the authorities and everything she did Leonid Volodarsky, 1990 The translator and radio host Leonid Volodarsky died after a long illness on August 8, he was 73 years old. He gained fame thanks to the translation and voice acting of foreign films, published in the USSR and Russia in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

Germany has ordered defense corporation Rheinmetall to supply Ukraine’s Armed Forces (AFU) with a Luna NG unmanned aerial reconnaissance system by the end of 2023, reports German tabloid Bild, citing its own sources of information. The publication calls the Luna NG a “superdrone” that can “see and hear.” Luna NG is an updated version of the Luna X-2000 unmanned aircraft, which has been in service with the Bundeswehr, Germany’s armed forces, since the early 2000s.

Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reports that Colonel Vitaly Kints, the head of a Donetsk fire rescue squad, has died in the hospital after receiving critical injuries from an August 7 missile strike on the city of Pokrovsk. The Pokrovsk missile strike killed 10 people, among them the deputy head of the Donetsk Regional Emergency Service Colonel Andrey Omelchenko. It injured another 80 people. The city of Pokrovsk was struck by two Iskander missiles on the evening of August 7.

An Indian startup has decided to fix this — and help the poorest people in its country. Training artificial intelligence requires completely different data — it’s not that hard to find in English, but problems often arise with other languages. At the same time, the work of people who create this data is usually poorly paid. The Indian startup Karya decided to fix this — and recruited low-income residents of rural areas of their country to work on collecting data for machine learning.

Dozens of Russian soldiers were killed or injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian-annexed Crimea overnight on August 12, writes newspaper Ukrainian Pravda, citing sources in Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU). The outlet’s sources reported that the SBU was behind the attack, which used 17 drones. Its target was a Russian logistics base in the vicinity of Yevpatoria. The drones attacked a military barracks, an area where automotive equipment was parked, and water tanker vehicles.

Update. The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov , reported that a residential building on Yesenin Street, building 9, building 1 was damaged, presumably due to a drone strike. The façade of the building was damaged from the seventh to the 13th floors. 15 cars were also damaged. No harm done. Residents of Belgorod report the sounds of explosions in the city. Local public pages publish photos of a damaged house and car on Yesenin Street.

The State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (State Emergencies Ministry) reported that the head of the fire and rescue detachment of the State Emergencies Service in the Donetsk region, Colonel Vitaly Kintz, who received severe wounds on a missile strike on Pokrovsk on August 7 died in the hospital. Thus, due to a missile blow to Pokrovsk, ten people died. Among the dead is the deputy chief of the State Emergencies Ministry for the Donetsk region Colonel Andrei Omelchenko.

The Georgian authorities are often called "pro -Russian." But is it really so? Kit newsletter production at Medusa Daro Sulakauri / Getty images fragment of barbed wire, sharing the village of Khurvaleti shortly after Russia's invasion of Georgia in August 2008. Behind the fence - the only resident of the occupied part of the village of Vali Vanishvili After 1991, Georgia did not have a single long partnership with Russia.

At least five people were killed in the shelling of the village of Shiroka Balka in the Kherson region on the morning of August 13, said Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klimenko. According to him, during the shelling of the village, a local resident was killed, as well as a family - a husband, wife and their newborn daughter, who was only 23 days old. In addition, the 12-year-old son of the victims, who was hospitalized in critical condition after the shelling, died in the hospital.

It all started with a school party in Bronx. Today it is the most popular musical genre. Here is his story Walter McBride / Camera Press / Vida Press Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five in 1983 Hip-hop turned 50 years old. This happened on August 11 - on the next anniversary of a small party in Bronx, where the presenter first read the text for the ciliates reduced (even the US Congress officially recognizes this date).