Ukraine received from the United States the first tranche of a billion dollars from a 20 billion loan, which will be secured by income from blocked Russian assets. Prime Minister Denis Shmygal stated this. “We expect that all sovereign Russian assets will be confiscated and used for the restoration of Ukraine,” said the Ukrainian prime minister. The US authorities announced the allocation of a 20 billion loan secured by income from Russian assets on December 10.

The Perovsky Court in Moscow sentenced Ivan Tishchenko, a cardiac surgeon with 20 years of experience, to four years in prison for donations to FBK, Sotavision reports. Tishchenko was found guilty of financing an “extremist” organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). The trial took place behind closed doors at the request of the defense; the doctor admitted guilt.

Hundreds of Christians protested in central Damascus on December 24 after a Christmas tree was burned in the northern city of Suqailabiya. A video of the burning of the Christmas tree the day before spread on social networks. According to human rights activists Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the tree was set on fire by foreign militants of the Islamist group Ansar al-Tawhid.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Russia wants to turn its neighbors into satellites like Belarus under Lukashenko, but is losing influence. What's next - new wars in the post-Soviet space? On December 19, during a direct line, Vladimir Putin said that the Russian Federation “will do everything” to ensure the security of Belarus.

In Berdyansk, which is located in the Russian-controlled territory of the Zaporozhye region, the car of the “head of the city council” Vitaly Necheta was blown up. The telegram channel “Berdyansk Now” was the first to report this. The explosion occurred around six in the morning in the courtyard of Necheta’s house. He is believed to have been injured. It is unclear whether anyone else was injured.

One thousand thirty-fifth day. Zelensky criticizes the Prime Minister of Slovakia for visiting Putin. Tatyana Lazareva was sentenced in absentia to six and a half years in prison Stanislav Krasilnikov / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Russian military vehicle near the front line Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Updated . According to local authorities, one person died. As a result of a strike by Russian troops in Krivoy Rog, a multi-storey residential building was damaged, said the head of the administration of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Sergei Lysak. According to preliminary data, six people were injured. Three of them were hospitalized in moderate condition. Judging by the photographs and videos distributed by Ukrainian telegram channels, a multi-storey residential building was partially destroyed.

A court in Amsterdam has sentenced four people to prison terms ranging from one to six months after they were found guilty of attacking fans of the Israeli football club Maccabi in November 2024, NOS reported. Another defendant, the youngest of them, 19-year-old Lucas D., received 100 hours of community service. The publication explains this court decision by the fact that Lucas D. is a minor. However, he was the only one present at the announcement of the verdict.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The Russian authorities now have many ways to leave you without money and property. How to protect yourself? The State Duma adopted a bill on special ruble accounts for “foreign agents”, to which almost all payments due to the “foreign agent” will need to be transferred, including money for the sale of property or renting out an apartment. This is one of many new ways in which Russian authorities can leave citizens without money and property.

The Investigative Committee opened a new criminal case against journalist Dmitry Kolezev, whom a court in Moscow sentenced in absentia to seven and a half years in prison in the case of “fake stories” about the Russian army. Law enforcement agencies reported the new case to TASS.

US President Joe Biden is considering introducing new sanctions on Russia's energy sector in the final weeks of his presidency, The Washington Post reported on December 24, citing four sources. The publication called the possible sanctions “Biden’s farewell blow to Putin’s war chest .” According to sources, the new measures could be aimed at Russia's so-called shadow fleet - international ships that transport Russian oil bypassing sanctions.

The largest American airline, American Airlines, announced that it was suspending flights to the United States due to a “technical glitch.” The United States Federal Aviation Administration confirmed the suspension of the company's flights, Reuters reports. “We are currently experiencing a technical issue with all American Airlines flights. Your safety is our top priority.

Iranian businessman Hossein Shamkhani owns a business that provides a quarter of Iranian arms supplies to Russia, Bloomberg reported on December 24, citing sources. Hossein Shamkhani is the son of Ali Shamkhani, a former Iranian defense minister who now serves as an adviser to the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. According to the agency, Shamkhani Jr. is part of a group of businessmen who are engaged in supplying weapons to Russia through the Caspian Sea.

Photos The Center group of the Russian army continues its offensive south of the city of Pokrovsk in the central part of the Donetsk region. The Russian Armed Forces are not trying to immediately storm the city itself, in which 60 thousand people lived before the war, but instead bypass it from the south.

Your browser does not support the audio element. What does the Kremlin expect from the “Putin generation”? And will these people be nostalgic for Putin? By the end of the 2010s, the “Putin generation” cliche had spread in Russia. By that time, people who had lived their entire lives under Putin began to reach adulthood. Some sociologists explained that many representatives of the “Putin generation” share democratic values ​​and do not trust the current government.