Russian political strategist of Ukrainian origin Vladimir Sergienko, who holds the position of assistant to Bundestag deputy from the Alternative for Germany party Evgeniy Schmidt, was recruited by the Fifth Service of the FSB and is in close contact with one of its employees. This is confirmed in an investigation by The Insider and Der Spiegel. In the summer of 2023, publications already reported about Sergienko’s contacts with a certain person in Moscow.

A Planet Labs satellite image showing the crash site of the Russian Il-76 military transport plane has been published by Schemes, a project from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Ukrainian Service. The image, taken on January 31, shows what Schemes describes as an approximately 500-meter-long trail left by the plane during the crash. From Meduza’s newsroom: Judging by the debris scatter pattern, the plane was falling from west to east – that is, away from Belgorod Airport, rather than toward it.

British Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton will move from the German Mercedes team to the Italian Ferrari at the end of the 2024 season. Ferrari said in a statement that the driver had a multi-year contract. In 2025, his teammate will be Charles Leclerc. Hamilton himself announced that the decision to leave Mercedes was one of the most difficult in his life. “However, now is the right time to take this step and I am excited to take on this new challenge.

Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP / Scanpix / Leta February 1 Belgian farmers held a massive protest in the center of Brussels in Luxembourg Square next to the European Parliament, where the next EU summit takes place. Farmers drove into the city on hundreds of tractors, blocking the streets in the government quarter.

The leaders of all 27 E.U. countries have agreed on a 50-billion-euro (more than $54-billion) aid package for Ukraine, European Council President Charles Michel announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday. Michel wrote that the package would provide “long-term, predictable funding for Ukraine.” According to Michel’s press secretary, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán agreed to approve the deal after meeting with the prime ministers of Italy, France, and Germany the day before. The E.U.

Valery Zaluzhny proposed changing the strategy of war against Russia Yan Dobronosov / Global Images Ukraine / Getty images The Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny published a column on the website of the American television channel CNN. In the material entitled “The Design of War Has Changed”, he talks about his vision of a new war strategy against Russia.

The organization for helping LGBT people “Egida” published a photo of the earrings for which a local resident was arrested in Nizhny Novgorod under an administrative protocol. The earrings are made in the shape of a frog, painted in seven colors of the rainbow. Anastasia Ershova, who was wearing earrings, was detained and accused of “demonstrating extremist symbols” (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code).

It’s become increasingly difficult for Ukraine to repel Russian attacks, but so far, defenses are holding Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on a war we firmly oppose.

AFP / Scanpix / LETA Servicemen at a military training facility in Russia’s Rostov region. October 1, 2023. The Russian authorities have been coercing refugees from Middle Eastern and African countries into fighting in the war against Ukraine, according to a new investigation from Novaya Gazeta. They reportedly do this by tricking the migrants with the help of the same intermediaries who have helped them send other refugees into E.U. countries through Russia and Belarus in recent years.

The White House has confirmed plans to launch a series of strikes on Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria in response to an attack on a US military base in Jordan, CBS News reports , citing Joe Biden administration officials. According to journalists' interlocutors, the strikes will be carried out within several days. The main factor in determining when the operation will begin, they say, will be weather conditions.

Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has apologized for remaining silent about his hospitalization in early January, which neither the White House nor the Pentagon knew about for four days. He stated this during his first press conference at the US Department of Defense after returning from the hospital. “I had to inform the president about my diagnosis. I didn’t do that and it was a mistake,” Austin said , saying he apologized to all his colleagues and the American people.

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate reported that the Ukrainian army had destroyed the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Ivanovets missile corvette on the night of February 1. Ukrainian intelligence says that the army attacked the corvette while it was on a roadstead on Lake Donuzlav in annexed Crimea. “As a result of a number of direct hits to the hull, the corvette sustained damage incompatible with further movement, rolled to the stern, and sank,” the agency reported.

About artists who leave their works among the debris of destroyed houses Slava Leontyev and andrey Stefanov / Sundance Institute / AP / Scanpix / Leta The film by the American director Brendan Bellomo and the Ukrainian artist and director of Glory Leontyev “Porcelain War” received the Grand Prix of the Non-Great Competition at the largest American festival of the independent movie “Sandance”.

Propaganda tells about the “Ukrainian trace” in the campaign of a politician, which she used to just ignore Vera Savina / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Boris Nadezhdin passes the signature to the CEC. January 31, 2024 On the morning of January 31, politician Boris Nadezhdin passed 105 thousand signatures of Russians necessary for nomination in the presidential election in the CEC.

The leaders of the European Union, having agreed to allocate financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 50 billion euros, admitted that income from Russian state assets may be one of the method of financing the package for Kiev. This follows from the statement of the European Council following the results of the summit in Brussels. The document notes that 17 billion out of 50 billion euros of assistance is “gratuitous support”.