Russian troops attacked Kharkov. Three people were killed and 28 people were injured, said the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov. According to the National Police of Ukraine, two strikes on the city were carried out by guided bombs. The head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, reported that among the victims there were 18 men and one woman (the police specified that she was 58 years old).

Over Belgorod and the Belgorod region, air defense forces shot down several air targets, two people were wounded, said the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov. One man has a closed craniocerebral injury, a concussion and a shrapnel wound to the left leg, the second has a shrapnel wound to the frontal region, the governor specified. Both were taken to the Belgorod city hospital. It is not known where they were at the time of the injury.

Alushta said goodbye to Lieutenant Colonel of the Russian troops Alexander Kulakov, who died as a result of a missile attack on Crimea, said the head of the city administration Galina Ogneva. The date of Kulakov’s death is not specified in the message, but the Astra telegram channel, citing sources in the emergency services, wrote that he died during an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the air defense base of the 3rd Radio Engineering Regiment on Mount Ai-Petri on May 13.

Updated. At the military academy, “munition from the Great Patriotic War detonated,” RIA Novosti reports , citing the press service of the Leningrad Military District. Seven people were injured and were taken to the hospital, TASS writes . St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov stated that the incident at the academy “is within the area of ​​responsibility of the Ministry of Defense and is not of a terrorist nature.” In St.

The support of the separatists France accused Azerbaijan Nicolas Job / AP / Scanpix / Leta In New Caledonia - the overseas territory of France - mass riots continue for several days. The reason for them was the decision of the French parliament to grant the right to vote in local elections living on the island from the metropolis, which was regarded as an attempt by Paris to strengthen their influence in the archipelago and prevent it from achieving independence.

The Israeli military during a special operation returned three dead hostages from the body of the body of the body, including 22-year-old German Shani Luke citizen, Speaker DSALA Daniel Hagari said. Two other dead hostages are 28-year-old Amit Buskil and 56-year-old Yitzhak Gelerner. All three, according to Hagari, were at the Nova music festival in the south of Israel. They were killed when they tried to escape from Hamas terrorists towards Kibuutz Mephalsim.

Russian military investigators detained in Kazakhstan a former serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces, Kamil Kasimov, who deserted from the army. This was reported by “Important Stories” with reference to Kasimov’s brother and human rights activists. According to the publication, Kasimov was detained right at his workplace in Astana. Then he was taken to the territory of the Russian military unit in Priozersk.

On the first day of the new offensive of Russian troops in the Kharkov region, the Starlink terminals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which they use for communication on the front line, failed, Ukrainian military personnel told The Washington Post. On the morning of May 10, the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade lost contact with drones due to electronic interference from the Russian side.

Photographer and visual artist Danila Tkachenko brings war-torn Ukraine to Europe’s best-known landmarks For many spared the direct impacts of the war in Ukraine, the conflict has become a distant concern — distressing and unsettling, yet no longer disruptive to daily life.

Answers Chinesist Alexei Chigadaev Alexander Ryumin / RIA Novosti / satellite / AP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin at the flow of flowers to the monument to the Soviet soldiers who fell in battles for the liberation of the northeast of China from Japanese invaders. Harbin, May 17, 2024 On May 7, the inauguration of Vladimir Putin took place , and ten days later the “new” president of Russia made the first state visit - to China at the invitation of Xi Jinping.

We tell you what one of the most serious crises in the history of relations between the two countries can lead to GPO / Anadolu / Getty Images US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Tel Aviv. October 18, 2023 In the relationship of Israel and the USA, one of the most serious crises in history is developing. Since the beginning of May, the States has stopped delivering some types of ammunition to their Key Middle Eastern ally.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put former Dozhd journalist Bogdan Bakaleyko on the wanted list, Mediazona noted . The article for which Bakaleiko is wanted is not indicated on his card. In mid-April, he said that his relatives in Russia were summoned to the Investigative Committee, and then the security forces called him, asking him to write a paper stating that he lives abroad and will not return to Russia.

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested city resident Artem Tabachuk, who is accused of beating his girlfriend to death, reports the joint press service of the city courts. According to TASS, we are talking about a St. Petersburg man who beat the lead singer of the musical group Una Anastasia Kotova. A statement from the press service of the courts states that on May 15, Tabachuk, while in an apartment in a house in Kolpino in a state of alcoholic intoxication, struck victim K.

The nation’s restaurant scene has earned its own Michelin Guide, so why is it still struggling? Story by Will Mawhood for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Sign up here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox. In late November 2023, the inaugural Michelin Guide Latvia was presented to the world.

Russia has no plans to capture Kharkiv “as of today,” President Vladimir Putin said Friday while on a visit to China. Speaking at a press conference in the city of Harbin, Putin claimed that Russian forces are conducting offensive operations in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in order to create a “buffer zone” to prevent attacks on Russian border areas. “As for what’s happening on the Kharkiv front.