The European Union countries in the preparation of the 19th package of sanctions against Russia are discussing the possibility of introducing secondary restrictions on states that help Moscow bypass existing sanctions. EU foreign ministers, according to Bloomberg sources, will meet in Copenhagen this week and, as expected, will discuss new sanctions.

The Hungarian government appealed in the European Union court a decision to use frozen Russian assets to finance military assistance to Ukraine, reports Portfolio. The lawsuit against the Council of the European Union and the European Fund of the World was filed in July. The court accepted it for consideration on August 25. Budapest is trying to challenge the decision of the EU Council, adopted in May 2024.

Google Meet Video Conferences Service in Russia is not related to technical problems on the Google side, RBC was told in the company's press service. “We know about problems with the access of users to Google Meet in Russia; This is not related to technical problems on the Google side, ”the report said. On August 27, Russian Google Meet users for a second time in a week reported problems in the service. The first time we complained about interruptions on August 22.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on the appointment of Olga Stefanishina as an ambassador to the United States. Zelensky reported this in a video message following the results of the 1281th day of the war. “He just spoke with Olga Stefanishina - now the new ambassador of Ukraine to the United States of America. Formal procedures are completed - today I signed a decree on the appointment of an ambassador, ”the president said.

The German investigation established the names of all the alleged members of the group who staged a sabotage in the Northern Streams. About this writes Die Zeit. In total, the group, according to investigators, included seven people - four divers, explosive specialist, the captain of the ship and the head of the group Sergey K., recently detained in Italy. All the alleged participants in the operation are citizens of Ukraine, the German investigation wrote out orders for their arrest.

Swiftis cannot restrain emotions. Journalists are discussing the ring and dress. Donald Trump forgot that he hates the singer, and wished her happiness The American pop star Taylor Swift on August 26 announced the engagement with her boyfriend-football player Travis Kelsey.

The Russian government extended the ban on the export of gasoline, TASS reports. Until September 30, the ban will be complete - it will touch both direct manufacturers and ordinary retailers. From October 1, gasoline will be able to export direct manufacturers, and exporters who do not have their own production will receive this right from November 1. The current ban was supposed to end on August 31.

Photos and videos 25 years ago, on August 27, 2000, a fire occurred on the Ostankino TV tower in Moscow. Feeders caught fire - the wiring, according to which the television signal is transmitted from the transmitter to the antenna. The fire of the fire was at an altitude of 460 meters (the total height of the tower was 540 meters). From high temperature, steel cables that ensure the stability of the concrete structures of the tower began to burst. But the tower resisted.

In the Catholic school, Minneapolis opened shooting, reports CBS News. According to the sources of the channel, about 20 people were injured. Who are they - school staff or children is not specified. ABC News sources report that two people were killed, more than a dozen were injured. Reuters writes about three dead (including the shooter) and about 20 were injured. Updated . The police officially reported that two dead are children aged 8 and 10 years.

During the third term, Xi Jinping in China disappeared from a public space or 14 of the 79 generals, whom he had previously appointed, calculated Bloomberg. As the agency notes, for 20 years of being in the power of its predecessors there was not a single such case. As a result of purges in the Central Military Council (CVS) - the highest collegial body of the Chinese army - there are only four out of seven - this is the lowest indicator since the time of Mao Zedong.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in an interview with Al-Arabii, said that in 1920, "the Russian army invaded Azerbaijan and occupied the country." “The Bolsheviks who committed the 1917 revolution deceived the people. Their slogans were: “Factories and factories - workers, land - peasants, freedom to peoples,” said Aliyev (quote from the transcript of an interview published by the State Agency Azertaj).

The Lithuanian "Forum of Free Russia" was included in the list of terrorist organizations that is being conducted by the FSB. As the basis, the FSB list indicates the decision of the 1st Western District Military Court of March 21, 2025, according to which the dissident and former Soviet political prisoner Alexander Skobov was sentenced to 16 years in prison in the case of justification of terrorism and the participation of the terrorist community. This decision entered into force on June 23.

A thousand two hundred eighty -first days. Strengthening attacks on energy facilities: the Russian military fired at the infrastructure immediately in six regions of Ukraine State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Sumy Region / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Firefighters eliminate the consequences of the Russian drone strike in the Sumy region, August 27, 2025 Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air.

The wife of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnova Anna Krasnova over the past four years earned almost 160 million rubles (at least 3.3 million a month) as the vice president of the Transmashholding group, the project found out. Igor Krasnov and Anna Krasnova (maiden surname - Komleva) got married in May 2012. However, since 2017, information about his wife from Krasnov’s declarations disappeared, and her income was not known.

ESET Research Labs experts have discovered a malicious program that uses artificial intelligence for work. This is the first famous virus of this type. Researchers called it Promptlock. The Mounting Program contains unchanged industrial deposits that it sends and models. In response, artificial intelligence in real time generates Lua scripts that scan the file system of the infected device, filter the necessary data, and then steal or encrypt it.