The head of the Kharkov Regional Military Administration Oleg Sinugubov said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the evening of February 27 "inflicted a massive blow to the energy system" of the region. He did not give details about which objects were hit. “The forces of the air defense of Ukraine work in an intensified mode of protection. All relevant services are involved in the elimination of the consequences, ”said Sinegubov.

The American company Openai has released a new GPT-4.5 artificial intelligence model, according to the company's blog on February 27. OpenAi noted that the new version is better captured and reacts to subtle tips of users, and it will be useful to write or program. The company expects GPT-4.5 less often to be mistaken than previous models.

The tenth world chess champion, grandmaster Boris Spassky died in Moscow at the age of 88, the Russian Chess Federation said on February 27. Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty images Boris Spassky during a match in Geneva, August 22, 1977 Spassky became the world chess champion in 1969, defeating Tigran Petrosyan in Moscow. In 1972, Spassky lost the title of American Robert Fisher in Reykjavik. Spassky twice became the champion of the USSR - in 1961 and 1973.

US President Donald Trump said that he was ready to trust the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin if an agreement was reached on the termination of the Russian-Ukrainian war. He said this during communication with journalists at the beginning of the meeting with British Prime Minister Kirmer Stal Britain in the White House, Reuters writes on February 27. Journalists asked Trump if he could trust Putin with regard to Ukraine.

US President Donald Trump abandoned his statement, in which he called the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky "a dictator without a choice." He said this during a meeting with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Kirir Senermer, wrote Bloomberg journalist Alex Vikham on the social network X on February 27. “I said that? I can’t believe that I said this, ”Trump said, answering the question of whether he still considers Zelensky a dictator.

The office of the Santa Fa County in New Mexico considered the “rather suspicious” death of actor Gin Hackman and his wife, the pianists of Betsy Arakawa, who were found dead on February 26. The police intend to conduct a thorough investigation, Variety reports , citing a search warrant ( .pdf ). The police found that Hackman, his wife and their dog, who also died, were in different rooms in their house in a suburb of Santa Fa.

US President Donald Trump extended for one year the effects of sanctions imposed on Russia due to the annexation of Crimea and the recognition of the independence of self-proclaimed DPR and LPR. This is stated in the materials of the US Federal Register ( .pdf ), presented on February 27. Trump extended sanctions imposed in 2014, 2018 and 2022 by various US presidents.

The court in Marseille sentenced to eight months in prison of the liberty of two men for an attack on the Consulate General of Russia. The 60-year-old and 48-year-old defendants of the case (only their names were published: Georges and Vasil, it is known that they are scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research) were found guilty of articles on the damage to property in a generally hazardous way and illegal production of explosives.

Update. After some time, the police began to skip people with flowers to Boris Nemtsov’s memorial, follows from the Sotavision video. At the same time, the wipers threw a memorial plate installed at the place of the murder of Nemtsov. Police on the evening of February 27 closed the pedestrian part of the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge in the center of Moscow, where they carried flowers in memory of politics Boris Nemtsov, reported by Sotavision.

The visit of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in the United States, planned on February 28, could be canceled if the French president Emmanuel Macron did not intervene. This was reported by the French TV channel BFM TV with reference to a diplomatic source. According to the TV channel, on February 26, Kyiv received a message from the White House in which he was recommended to refuse a trip to the United States.

It is such a startup that Indian developers created. They even found funding, but something went wrong ... The startup Optifye.ai has created software that allows you to control the workers in real time and evaluate their effectiveness using artificial intelligence. In the Promovideo, the fellowship of the company plays a scene with criticizing an employee who does not cope with his duties well.

The main characters of the picture are the parents of these military Artdocfest From March 1 to March 8, the Artdokfest documentary festival will be held in Riga. One of the most noticeable works of this year is Daniel Berger's film “Alien War” . A native of Kyrgyzstan, Berger takes off the story of two families in which sons died: in the hope of obtaining Russian citizenship, they went to war in Ukraine. Kinocritic Anton Dolin talks about this valuable film.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, presented to the award “For Merit to the Chechen Republic” two surviving flight attendants of the azerbaijan airlines, which crashed in December 2024. The surviving crew members, Kadyrov said in his telegram channel, showed “exceptional courage and high professionalism” during a plane crash. The head of Chechnya also promised to establish a memorial plate in the terrible in memory of those who died as a result of the crash of the aircraft.

In the city of Parles-Khan-Carcur in the north of Israel, a terrorist attack is committed, reports The Times of Israel. According to the police, a man in a car drove into a crowd of people at a stop, after which he continued to move and crashed into a police car parked nearby. He tried to hide, but was shot. As a result of the attack, ten people were injured. One of the victims is in critical condition, two more - in a serious one.

US President Donald Trump said that on March 4, it was going to introduce previously 25 percent duties on imports from Canada and Mexico, as well as additional 10 percent duties on imports from China. He reported this on his social network Truth Social on February 27. Trump said that drugs continue to enter the territory of the United States from Mexico and Canada in very large and unacceptable volumes.