The acting president of the partially recognized republic of Abkhazia, Badra Gunba, said that he had turned to the Russian authorities with a request for a humanitarian supply of electricity, Apsnypress reports. Gunba said that the November political crisis led to dire consequences, among which he named the collapse of the energy system and the deterioration of relations with Russia. “A blackout for 9-11 hours a day is a death sentence for the healthcare and education systems.

Update. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested former Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Denis Gribov in the case of fraud on an especially large scale, the court's press service told TASS. A former Deputy Minister of Education of Russia, who was on the federal wanted list for fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code), was detained at one of the Moscow airports, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported.

US President Joe Biden signed a law to continue funding the federal government, CNN reports, citing the White House press service. Previously, the document was approved by both chambers of the US Congress. The law allows US government funding to remain at current levels until March 14, 2025. It also provides more than $100 billion for disaster relief. Previously, temporary funding for government work was approved only until December 20. Congress approved the new bill at the last minute.

The Russians, according to the police, are doing this on the instructions of the scammers In Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities of Russia on December 20 and 21, there was a wave of arson and explosions in public places. The Russians set off fireworks, use firecrackers, blow up ATMs, set fire to cars and military registration and enlistment offices. The suspects were detained almost immediately after the incident.

Is something threatening ordinary Russians? And how does all this relate to neural networks? Roskomnadzor (RKN) has published a draft order on the provision by telecom operators of “information allowing the identification of communication means and user equipment (terminal equipment)” on the Internet. With this document, the agency specifies the procedure, composition and format for transmitting such data.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, against the backdrop of a shortage of people at the front, ordered the “already depleted air defense units” to release more military personnel in order to send them to the infantry, The Guardian reported, citing sources in Ukrainian air defense units. “The situation has reached a critical level, and we cannot be sure that air defense will be able to function properly,” one of the publication’s interlocutors said.

This is what Kyiv and Rylsk look like after the shelling. Photos The city of Rylsk in the Kursk region came under fire on December 20. According to the head of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, the Ukrainian military launched a missile strike using the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system. Dozens of buildings were damaged during the shelling, and at least 15 cars were burned. According to local authorities, five people died. Another 12 were injured, nine of them were hospitalized.

The Fort shopping center in the Otradnoe district in north-east Moscow was evacuated due to a firecracker explosion, TASS reports citing the Moscow Ministry of Internal Affairs. Initially, local media and telegram channels on the afternoon of December 21 reported the sounds of shooting in the Fort shopping center and the evacuation of visitors. Later it became known that a firecracker exploded in the shopping center.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky dismissed Ukrainian diplomatic representatives in six countries and a number of international organizations, Ukrayinska Pravda reports, citing decrees of the head of state.

One thousand thirty-second day. In Kazan, Ukrainian drones damaged high-rise buildings; in Kherson, Russian aerial bombs hit an oncology clinic DSNS of Ukraine Rescuers in the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region at the site of a fire that occurred after a drone strike, December 20, 2024 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

A monument to Joseph Stalin was unveiled in Vologda on the territory of the Vologda exile house-museum, where Stalin lived during his exile in 1911-1912. The governor of the Vologda region, Georgy Filimonov, announced this on December 21 in his telegram channel.

At least five people were killed when a BMW X3 driver hit visitors at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany on December 20 , the German publication Der Spiegel reported . At the same time, the tabloid Bild, citing the police, writes that four people were killed. After the attack, authorities in the state of Saxony-Anhalt reported that two people were killed.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is going to hold a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 23. According to RIA Novosti, Vucic announced this on the Happy TV channel on December 20. According to Vucic, Fico is going to discuss with Putin that Ukraine intends to abandon gas transit to Europe from January 1. “As far as I know unofficially, and when I say ‘unofficially’...

The Houthis in Yemen launched a missile attack on Tel Aviv on the night of December 21, The Times of Israel reported. The rocket fell in a park in the south of the city. Due to the missile strike, an air raid alert was announced in Tel Aviv at 3:44 a.m. (4:44 Moscow time).

Russian attack drones of the Shahed type attacked Kharkov on the evening of December 20, said the head of the regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, in the Kiev district of Kharkov, due to the fall of drone debris, the roof of a residential building caught fire, a gas pipeline was damaged, and two people were injured.