The United States has approved requests from Denmark and the Netherlands to supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters with reference to an American official and a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The dispatch of fighters may occur after the training of Ukrainian pilots is completed, the agency clarifies.

A Moscow court has arrested U.S. citizen Gene Spector on suspicion of espionage, according to Russian state media. Spector, who was born in Russia, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison last year for allegedly bribing an assistant of former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich. Spector previously served as the head of Medpolimerprom, a group of companies manufacturing plastic medical devices. The Russian authorities have not reported any details about the espionage charges against him.

Turkey’s government sent a warning to Moscow requesting that it avoid further escalation after Russian forces fired warning shots to stop a cargo ship in the Black Sea on Sunday, according to the Center for Combating Disinformation under the Turkish presidency’s communications directorate.

Luna-25, Russia’s uncrewed spacecraft that’s currently orbiting the Moon, has captured its first image of the lunar surface. Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos published the image on August 17. The picture shows a crater on the far side of the Moon called Zeeman. “These images add a significant amount to the information we have about this crater. The first image of the far side of the Moon was taken in October 1959 by the Soviet automatic station Luna-3,” Roscosmos said in a statement.

At the factory in Tatarstan, Iranian "Shakudy" are trying to improve Sobhan Farajvan / Pacific Press / Scanpix / Leta Iranian drone "Shakud-136" By the summer of 2025, Russia plans to produce six thousand drones of the Shakud type on the territory of the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, the material of The Washington Post says . At the disposal of the publication were documents regarding the assembly of Iranian drones in the Russian Federation.

The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that on the evening of August 17, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack ships of the Black Sea Fleet with an unmanned sea boat. This is stated in the department's message. According to the ministry, the ships carried out tasks to control navigation in the southwestern part of the Black Sea - 237 kilometers southwest of Sevastopol.

Update. A message with a photograph of protest against the annexation of Crimea was missing from the twitter of the Russian embassy in South Africa. The post remained in the web archive. The Russian Embassy in South Africa on its Twitter published a post that states that before the Russian Federation and Ukraine united the common values ​​and desire for friendship. At the same time, the embassy with a photograph from the anti -war march of 2014, which took place in Moscow, illustrated Twit.

Turkey sent a warning to Moscow asking it to avoid further escalation after the Russian military fired warning shots on August 13 to stop the cargo ship Sukra Okan in the Black Sea. This was reported by the Center for Combating Disinformation under the Communications Directorate of the Administration of Turkish President Recep Erdogan. The ship was flying the Palauan flag, and the owner and crew were Turkish citizens.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow arrested a native of Russia, US citizen Gene (Evgeniy) Spector on charges of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). As TASS notes , we are talking about an American who was involved in a case of bribery of Anastasia Alekseeva, the ex-assistant of former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich. Details of the espionage case are unknown.

The automatic interplanetary station Luna-25, flying in a circular orbit of an artificial satellite of the Moon, took the first photograph of the lunar surface. The photo was distributed on August 17 by Roscosmos. The image shows the south polar crater Zeeman on the far side of the Moon. “The resulting images significantly complement the currently available information about this crater.

Residents of the republic said that they did not even have enough bread Karn Minasyan / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Azerbaijani checkpoint at the entrance to the Lachinsky corridor, July 30, 2023 The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Artsakh), Gegam Stepanyan, announced the first death from hunger in the region, which has been in the blockade for eight months. The Ombudsman was published on Facebook by a photo of the 40-year-old resident Stepanakert K.

Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the movement for the protection of voters' rights "Golos" , who became a defendant in a case on organizing the activities of an "undesirable" organization ( part 3 of article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ), was detained. This was reported by "Dozhd". According to Dozhd, after interrogation in the main building of the Investigative Committee in Tekhnichesky Pereulok, Melkonyants will be taken to a temporary detention facility (IVS).

Russia’s federal investigators are actively recruiting children from eastern Ukraine to their cadet schools Alexander Bastrykin, chairman of Russia’s federal Investigative Committee Russia’s Investigative Committee (IC) is a federal law-enforcement agency tasked with detective work in both military and civilian spheres. Since the earliest phases of the armed conflict in the Donbas in 2014, the IC launched a number of programs for assisting children affected by warfare in eastern Ukraine.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Russia, after the crisis, the nuts are always “twisted”. Often - not at all where you can expect. Why is the Kremlin doing this? “Twisting of nuts” in Russia is always waiting for any reason. Prigozhin was no exception to the June rebellion: both the opposition and many pro -government experts and publicists began to predict that "now the nuts will twist." Some were worried about this, others rejoiced.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How does the Russian Spy Network in the West work? And who is her main target now? Tell Irina Borogan and Andrey Soldatov From the beginning of the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, Russian intelligence agencies transfer spy work abroad to unofficial agents. These are citizens of third countries and “illegal immigrants” - Russian operatives who pretend to be citizens of other countries and have been creating a cover for years.