Alexander Demidenko, a Russian man who works as a volunteer to help Ukrainian citizens in Russia return to Ukraine, has been arrested in Russia’s Belgorod region. According to local media, on October 17, Demidenko was abducted at the Kolotilovka-Pokrovka checkpoint on the Russia-Ukraine border, likely by officers from the Chechen Rosgvardia (Russian National Guard) units that operate the checkpoint.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, deputy chairman of the Yabloko party Boris Vishnevsky filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation with a request to check the statements and initiate a criminal case against State Duma deputy Andrei Gurulev. Novaya Gazeta also launched a petition addressed to the Prosecutor General and other Russian officials demanding that the deputy’s statements be verified.

The mercenary group Redut, which operates under the control of Russia’s Defense Ministry, has started recruiting women for combat roles in the “Borz” volunteer battalion for deployment to Ukraine, according to journalists at iStories . Redut posted its announcement on the social network Vkontakte, offering a starting monthly salary of 222,000 rubles ($2,355). Candidates without firearm skills are being offered a month-long boot camp in Donetsk.

Representatives of the Hamas terrorist movement said they have freed two women hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip following the October 7 attack on Israel. According to The Times of Israel, we are talking about Israeli citizens, 79-year-old Nurit Cooper and 85-year-old Yochaved Lifshitz, who lived in Kibbutz Nir Oz. Their husbands remain hostage in Gaza.

Video shows Yekaterinburg police sat in car and laughed while watching fight that ended in Gabonese student’s death In August 2023, 32-year-old Francois Ndjaseli, a graduate student from Gabon who was studying at Yekaterinburg’s Ural Federal University, was fatally stabbed outside of a Burger King in the city. Danil Fomin, a local 23-year-old, was charged with the murder and arrested shortly after.

For many years, Ukrainian operatives trained the CIA for many years - but the operations themselves did not participate Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Farewell ceremony with Daria Dugina in the Ostankino television center.

Representatives of the Red Cross, through the mediation of Qatar, reached an agreement with Hamas militants on the release in the Gaza Strip of about 50 hostages with dual citizenship who were captured during the attack on Israel on October 7. The Israeli TV channel i24news reports this with reference to its own sources in Gaza. Red Cross personnel are currently deployed to the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Katrin Jacobsdottir gathered to participate in the action Dan Kitwood / Getty Images Prime Minister of Iceland Katrin Jacobsdottir On October 24, tens of thousands of inhabitants of Iceland intend to hold a strike on one day in protest against gender inequality in wages. About this writes The Guardian. Iceland is considered one of the most progressive countries of the world from the point of view of gender equality.

The private military company Redut, controlled by the Russian Defense Ministry, has announced a recruitment of women for combat specialties in the volunteer battalion Borz to be sent to war in Ukraine. This is reported by the publication Vazhnye Istorii, which found a corresponding announcement on VKontakte. Potential mercenaries are offered a six-month contract with a salary of 220 thousand rubles.

The war has become a shock for many branches of Israeli economy. Financial Times - about how companies that have lost customers and employees survive AHMAD Gharabli / AFP / Scanpix / Leta business activity in Israel sharply fell with the beginning of a new war. In the photo-Panorama Tel Aviva, October 19, 2023 The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 was a huge shock for the entire Israeli society.

But they are more and more often attacked by medical institutions and their employees, writes The New York Times. Russia made more than a thousand such attacks in Ukraine Vadim Ghirda / AP / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainian doctor Yuri Kuznetsov in the destroyed surgery in the Izyum hospital. 18 February, 2023 Hospitals and their employees are increasingly becoming objects of attacks during armed conflicts, the newspaper The New York Times writes .

The UK government believes the explosion at Al Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip was not caused by an IDF airstrike, but by a missile fired by Palestinian militants towards Israel. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced this to members of the British Parliament. According to him, British intelligence services came to this conclusion based on intelligence data and analysis of the consequences of the explosion. An explosion in the courtyard of Al-Ahly Hospital in Gaza occurred on October 17.

The foreign ministers of the European Union countries were unable to agree on the allocation of a tranche of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 500 million euros from the European Peace Fund. this at a press conference . announced EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell An agreement was not reached due to the position of Hungary, reports Radio Liberty's Brussels correspondent Rikard Jozwiak.

Ukrainian football club FC Shakhtar reports that it has terminated its contract with youth player Oleksandr Rosputko. “Due to his failure to return to the team’s location and refusal to fulfill his contractual obligations, FC Shakhtar has terminated its contract with footballer Oleksandr Rosputko,” the club said in a statement. 19-year-old Rosputko went missing after Shakhtar faced Antwerp in the UEFA Youth League in Belgium on October 4, a game in which Rosputko played all 90 minutes.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The podcast “What happened” returned after the break. In this episode, we are talking about the consequences to which Hamas attack on Israel brought (and will still lead) On October 7, the militants of the Hamas movement attacked Israel. The terrorists entered the Israeli settlements located near the border with the gas sector.