The new head of the military department will be economist Andrei Belousov Getty images Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the appointment of Sergei Shoigu Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Nikolai Patrushev, who held this post since May 2008, was relieved by decree of the President of the Russian Federation from his post "in connection with the transition to another job." The Kremlin promised “over the next few days” to name a new position that Patrushev will take.

Vladimir Putin has relieved Nikolai Patrushev of his post as Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, replacing him with Sergey Shoigu, who has been serving as Russia’s defense minister. Patrushev will “transfer to another role.” Shoigu has headed Russia’s Defense Ministry since November 6, 2012. Putin has proposed appointing Andrey Belousov as the new defense minister. Nikolai Patrushev served as Secretary of the Security Council beginning in May 2008.

Vladimir Putin, by his decree, dismissed Nikolai Patrushev from the post of Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation “in connection with a transfer to another job.” Instead of him, Sergei Shoigu, who served as the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, was appointed to this position. Shoigu headed the Ministry of Defense from November 6, 2012 to May 12, 2024. Vladimir Putin proposed appointing Andrei Belousov as the new Minister of Defense.

Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the Federation Council with the candidacy of Andrei Belousov for consultations for the post of Minister of Defense instead of Sergei Shoigu. Until the resignation of the Cabinet of Ministers, Andrei Belousov served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

On the evening of May 12, a missile warning signal was announced in Belgorod for the fifth time that day, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . Explosions were heard in the city. Russian telegram channels write that as a result of shelling from Ukraine, residential buildings were hit in the city. According to preliminary data, the shells fell on Vatutina Avenue, on Konev Street and in the area of ​​the Shukhov Lyceum.

The Ukrainian authorities knew in advance about the plans of the Russian army to attack in the Kharkov region. Representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrey Yusov stated this on the air of a national telethon.

The Investigative Committee has opened a new criminal case against the driver of a regular bus who was involved in an accident and fell from a bridge into the Moika River in St. Petersburg.

Says Russian politics Eliot Boreinstein Michael Probst / AP / Scanpix / Leta Mural with portraits of Alexei Navalny and Nelson Mandela in Geneva, made on the eve of the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Joe Bayden. June 15, 2021 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela headed South Africa, having been released after 27 years of imprisonment. Alexei Navalny, who, during his life and after death, was repeatedly compared with the South African politician and human rights activist, this failed.

Updated . Ten more dead were found under the rubble of a house in Belgorod, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . Thus, as a result of the collapse of the entrance to a ten-story building, 12 people died. Rescuers discovered the bodies of two victims under the rubble of a multi-storey residential building in Belgorod, said the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. “There is information that people may remain under the rubble.

Richard Slayman, the world's first patient to successfully receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died in the United States at the age of 62, Associated Press reports. Sleiman underwent a pig kidney transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in March 2024 and was discharged two weeks later. At the time, surgeons said the transplanted kidney would last at least two years. Before that, he had been living with a human donor kidney since 2018, but it failed five years later.

The story of a 19-year-old student whose father was a mercenary for the Wagner PMC and died in Ukraine. And her fiancé suffered at the hands of the security forces for his anti-war activism and fled the country The names of the characters have been changed for safety reasons. Also, this text contains profanity. If you find this unacceptable, please do not read it. "They called him a storyteller" There are no landmarks in the dusty town in southern Russia where Alina was born.

Units of the Russian group of troops “North” advanced deep into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region, capturing four settlements in one day - the villages of Gatishche, Krasnoye, Morokhovets and Oleynikovo. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported this in a report for May 12.

Eight hundred eighth day of the war. Photos Every day since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the Medusa editors choose the main military pictures taken the day before. These pictures contain scenes of cruelty, violence and death, but most of them are not placed under a special dick, which usually the editors hide similar images. In a series of these photo stories, we try to document the war as it is. 808th day of the war.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that a fragment of the shot down “Point-U” missile hit the house Sputnik / Profimedia On the morning of May 12, one of the entrances of a ten -story building on Shchors Street fell in Belgorod. This happened after the massive shelling of the city by the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, said the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

The Investigative Committee announced the arrest of a second suspect in a criminal case involving the death of people as a result of a passenger bus falling into the Moika River in St. Petersburg. As the department said, in addition to the bus driver, the head of the motorcade of Taxi LLC, which organized the transportation of people, was detained. His name is not mentioned.