As Ukraine expands its foothold in the Kursk region (despite Russian reinforcements), Moscow’s offensive in Donbas picks up speed 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.

VTsIOM recorded a record fall in the rating of approval of the activities of the President of the Russian Federation and the trust rating Vladimir Putin, the Agency reports on August 23. There is no independent evidence of the VTsIOM data. The publication on the VTsIOM website says that the rating of approval of the president’s activities per week from August 12 to 18 decreased by 3.5 percentage points and reached 73.6%. A week earlier, from August 5 to 11, this indicator was 77.1%.

Independent US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy - the youngest announced on August 23 that he was suspended his election campaign, but “does not stop it,” CNN reports. “I do not stop my election campaign, but only suspend, but I do not finish. My name will remain in bulletins in most states, ”he said during his press conference in Phoenix, Arizona. According to him, he will remove his name from the ballots in 10 states where there is a struggle.

AP / Scanpix / Leta Major workers are transported to the helicopter of the FSIN employee, wounded when taking hostages to IK-19 in Surovikino, August 23, 2024 The leader of the “male state” Vladislav Pozdnyakov published in his telegram channel “Pozdnyakov 3.0” several videos, allegedly shot in IK-19 in the city of Surovikino in the Volgograd region, where four prisoners captured hostages on August 23. Videos were shot after the assault conducted by the fighters of the Rosgvard special forces.

Update. In Proletarsk, a fire was extinguished, which switched from dry vegetation to houses, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. According to the agency, the combustion of dry vegetation was eliminated on an area of ​​14.9 hectares, buildings on an area of ​​360 square meters. The Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev said that the fire has not been associated with a fire at the oil depot, which has been stewed since August 18.

The US Department of Finance announced on August 23, which imposed sanctions against about 400 individuals and legal entities in Russia and the countries of Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The restrictions were introduced due to a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine. In the SDN list , as Frank Media, the Center for Financial Technologies (CFT), paid attention to the attention of the publication.

In the demonstration version of the exam in history, the question of the entry of Kherson in Russia fell. Projects of options were published by the Federal Institute of Pedagogical Dimension, and the “layout” drew attention to them. In one of the tasks, students are offered to correlate geographical objects with historical events and dates. It is assumed that it is necessary to answer that Kherson became part of the Russian Federation in the 2020s.

EPA / Scanpix / LETA Russian conscripts who were captured by Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk region seen at a POW detention center in Ukraine’s Sumy region. August 16, 2024. Journalists from iStories have used open sources to identify 129 non-mobilized Russian conscripts who have disappeared or been captured by the Ukrainian army during its incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.

Due to the introduction of an electronic voting system in Moscow, they stopped checking passports from citizens at polling stations. This was written by Mediazona, whose correspondent visited a test vote on the eve of the next September elections. On a single voting day on September 8, the elections of deputies of the City Duma will be held in Moscow. On July 4, the Moscow election commission approved a new voting procedure , which will be completely electronic.

When taking hostages in colony No. 19 in the Volgograd region, four people were killed, the press service of the FSIN said. “Four employees have inflicted stained wounds of varying severity, three of them died. Four more, who resisted, were hospitalized, one of them died in the hospital, ”the press service of the department said. Updated .

The Russian Guard said that special forces killed four prisoners in IK-19 in the city of Surovikino in the Volgograd region during the assault on the afternoon of August 23, Interfax reports with reference to the Russian Guard. “Snipers of special forces in the Russian Guard in the Volgograd Region by four accurate shots neutralized four prisoners who took hostages of the colony employees. The hostages are released, ”the department told Interfax.

Prigogine died a year ago. Photos On August 23, 2023, the founder of the PMC Vagner Evgeny Prigozhin died. His plane Embraer Legacy 600 crashed over the Tver region. In addition to Prigozhin, the CVK commander Dmitry Utkin (Wagner) and eight more people became victims of the plane crash.

We answer important questions in one paragraph Saman Abesiriwardana / Pacific Press / Zuma Wire / Scanpix / Leta The incidence of Covid is now growing (and many alarming headers on this topic appear in the media), but so far the values ​​are actually quite low. At the same time, new variants of viruses are distributed . Apparently, they do not lead to a more serious illness than the viruses previous. True, it is probably easier for them to become infected.

According to preliminary data, all hostages were released during the IK-19 assault in Surovikin of the Volgograd region, Baza telegram channel reports on the afternoon of August 23. The fact that the assault is completed is written by Shot and Mash . According to their information, all the invaders are neutralized, and the hostages are saved, no one was injured among the security forces. Officially, this information is not confirmed.

Representatives of law enforcement agencies launched the IK-19 storm in the city of Surovikino of the Volgograd region, where four prisoners took hostile employees of a correctional institution. Mash and BAZA telegram channels report the beginning of the assault. At the same time, residents of Surovikino write in local chats that they hear the sounds of shooting, reports the telegram channel “Caution, News”. According to Mash, as a result of shooting, two prisoners were injured.