Alexander Lukashenko said he would run for a seventh term as President of Belarus in 2025. He made the announcement while speaking to journalists at a polling station after voting in Belarus’s parliamentary and local council elections. “I’ll run, I’ll run, I’ll run. Tell them I’ll run,” said Lukashenko, addressing his statement to representatives from the Belarusian opposition. “And the harder the situation becomes, the more actively they’ll disturb our society, including you.

During a press conference at the “Ukraine. Year 2024.” forum, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Zelensky didn’t provide information regarding the number of Ukrainian soldiers injured or missing. The Ukrainian president also said that, according to his assessment, 180,000 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the war.

Zelensky held a press conference on the results of two years of war and announced Ukrainian losses at the front. Brief retelling Every person is a great loss for Ukraine. 31 thousand Ukrainian soldiers died in this war. Not 300 or 150 thousand, as Putin lies. I won’t tell you about the wounded, otherwise Russia will know how many left the battlefield. The Russians killed 180 thousand, and in total with the wounded - up to 500 thousand. We have a plan for this year.

On February 25, Russian forces launched a massive attack on the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region’s Kramatorsk district. According to preliminary information from Ukraine’s National Police, the attack was carried out by missiles. The Donetsk region prosecutor’s office believes a KAB-250 aerial bomb was used in the attack.

Politico publication - about how US elites have made sure of Proveni's confidence Ami Vitale / Getty images Kosovars welcome NATO troops on the streets of the city of GNILANA, June 30, 1999 Two years after the start of the Russian invasion of the hope of Ukrainian authorities, they are largely connected with support from the United States - not only during the fighting, but also after their end . However, history shows that Kyiv should not expect too much from Washington.

On February 24, soldiers from the 81st “Bears” volunteer brigade attacked civilians in a cafe in Chornomorske, a village on the northwestern coast of annexed Crimea. An outdoor security camera captured the incident on video, and the footage is now being circulated in local media. The video shows armed men in camouflage storming a cafe, pushing people to the ground, beating them with batons, and firing into the air.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war with Russia, 31 thousand Ukrainian military personnel have died. This was announced at a press conference within the framework of the forum “Ukraine. The year is 2024,” said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. He did not disclose the number of wounded and missing military personnel. The President also voiced his assessment of Russian losses in the war.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, said that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died a natural death in the colony - due to a blood clot. “I may disappoint you, but what we know is that he actually died from a blood clot. And this is more or less confirmed. This was not taken from the Internet, but, unfortunately, natural [death],” said the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate at the “Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a “powerful and strong” war plan for 2024 that will produce results. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov at the forum “Ukraine. Year 2024" in Kyiv. “Everyone says that our results speak better than our actions. We are doing everything possible and impossible to make a breakthrough. There is already a plan for 2024. We don't talk about it publicly.

In Chelyabinsk, a local resident was summoned to the police for honoring the memory of Alexei Navalny, OVD-Info reports. On February 17, a girl whose name has not been released laid flowers in memory of Alexei Navalny at the monument to the victims of political repression.

Anton Dolin talks about a winning picture Berlinale The Golden Bear-the main prize of the 74th Berlin Film Festival-received the documentary "Dagomei" of the Franco-Senegal director Mati Diop. The award ceremony was held on the evening of February 24 at the Berlinal Palace. The Diop film tells about the history of the return of the treasures of the African kingdom of Dagomeus from Paris to his homeland, to the current Benin.

project More than 35 thousand euros were collected in the first day of the “Let’s” to help civilians in Ukraine who suffered from Russian military aggression. The fundraiser was launched by “Support Service” together with “Meduza” and “Dozhd” on the second anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

WSJ military officer Yaroslav Trofimov illuminated conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine did not become the topic of the day in the news broadcasts of Russian federal channels, the Agency noted. On the evening of February 24, the anniversary of the war was not mentioned in the announcements or in the stories of the final broadcasts on Rossiya 1 and Channel One.

Issue "Signal" on "Medusa" Two years after February 24, 2022, we have no neutral language to speak of the war. Almost any word that may be needed for this, in addition to its direct meaning, has an additional one: a certain attitude to the described events is “sewn up” in it.