Military aid from the US-approved package is already arriving in Ukraine, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. “Aid to Ukraine continues. They are receiving this assistance, and we hope that it will reach the front line so that Ukraine can continue to defend itself,” Jean-Pierre said at a briefing. She did not provide details, citing operational security issues. The US Congress approved a national security bill providing $61 billion in military aid to Ukraine, April 24, 2024.

New law makes it harder for draft-age Ukrainian men to get passports Sergei Gapon / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A crowd of Ukrainian nationals at a Ukrainian passport center in Warsaw, April 24, 2024 Ukrainian authorities passed a law banning passport renewals and limiting other consular services for draft-age Ukrainian men living outside of the country.

Ukraine’s line of defense under pressure as Russia gains footholds on the eastern front 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.

Bundeswehr officer Thomas H., who is accused of spying for Russia, told the court that he tried to contact the Russian consulate three times in order to obtain information about a possible nuclear escalation in Ukraine and have time to take his family to a safe place, writes Der Spiegel. According to the publication, the 54-year-old German officer was prompted to contact the Russian consulate by a message - “probably on TikTok” - but he doesn’t remember which one.

They have a villa in Greece - journalists call it a “venerable apartment” for Russian intelligence The Insider Former Russian military Nikolai Shaposhnikov and his wife Elena helped to breast sabotage in Europe, says The Insider. Shaposhnikovs are Czech citizens who moved there in the early 1990s. According to the publication, Elena Shaposhnikova has a passport with a number from the range reserved for Russian intelligence officers.

Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma Oleg Lavrichev was detained in the self-proclaimed DPR on suspicion of embezzlement, write Kommersant-Privolzhye , the Baza telegram channel and the publication “In the City N”, citing sources. According to Kommersant-Privolzhye sources, Lavrichev is charged with embezzlement committed by an organized group or on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code).

Updated. On the morning of April 30, the head of the regional administration, Oleg Kiper, announced that the death toll had risen to five people. 23 victims remain in hospitals. Eight people are in serious condition, four of them are in extremely serious condition, including a four-year-old girl. Russian troops launched a missile attack on Odessa, killing two people and a dog, said the head of the regional administration Oleg Kiper. Eight more people were injured of varying degrees of severity.

Asia-Plus Tajikistani citizens at the Russia-Kazakhstan border Hundreds of Tajikistani citizens are currently stuck in Moscow airports, according to the country’s foreign ministry. As of Saturday night, the agency reported, 954 people from Tajikistan were being held “in unsanitary conditions” in Vnukovo Airport’s temporary detention zone, including people studying at Russian educational institutions under the Russian government’s foreign student quotas.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. They say Putinism is a whole ideology. Why then can not the Kremlin explain what it is? We are discussing how Russians will unite Putin in the fifth period For many years, the Kremlin has been raising “patriots” for many years, fights for “traditional values” and promotes ideas that would help to justify the war in Ukraine in the eyes of Russians, strengthen repression and the fight against the opposition.

On the night of April 28, the Russian government published a decree on the state information system “Unified register of information on citizens subject to initial registration for military service, citizens registered for military service, as well as citizens who are not registered but are required to be registered for military service.” This is a key document describing the conditions for implementing the law on electronic summonses and other innovations that tighten the rules of conscription

Updated. The founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team, Ruslan Leviev, writes that the construction of an airstrip in the Belgorod region has nothing to do with the war. According to him, this is an airfield that the EFKO group of companies is building for its business jets - it was planned before 2022. Russia is building a new military airfield in the Belgorod region, 75 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, according to satellite images published by Radio Liberty.

NATO Secretary General came to Kyiv. He said that he would be honest - and gave Ukraine new promises Press Service of the President of Ukraine / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Jens Stoltenberg and Vladimir Zelensky in Kyiv, April 29, 2024 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrived on April 29 to Kyiv. Since the beginning of a full -scale war, this is his third visit to Ukraine. The trip was not announced in advance.

A Ukrainian girl taken from the Kherson region, who was adopted by Russian politician Sergei Mironov and his wife Inna Varlamova, has a sister and guardian, writes TSN, citing Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets. The publication “Important Stories” spoke about a one-year-old girl named Margarita Prokopenko, adopted by Mironov and Varlamova.

We tell you about it and nine other best songs of the week Every week, Meduza tells about the most notable new music of the week. Due to the departure of Western music labels from Russia, we stopped maintaining playlists on streaming services. In this issue: Pet Shop Boys recall London in the 1970s, Dr. Rubinstein and Overmono recall the raves of the 1990s and 2000s, and St. Vincent reflects on the present.

This is what he did The official website of Mtuuz 37 years ago, Henrietta Yanovskaya put in the Moscow Theater of the young spectator “Dog heart” - a performance that glorified both her herself and the theater. Now she invited the director Anton Fedorov to release her own interpretation of the Bulgakov story on the same stage. This premiere is one of the best Moscow this season. We tell how the “dog’s heart” Fedorov echoes the work of Yanovskaya.