Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with France 2 that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the war exceed 55 thousand people. “In Ukraine, 55 thousand military personnel, both regular and mobilized, officially died on the battlefield. [To this number should be added] a large number of people whom Ukraine considers missing,” Zelensky said on February 4 (quoted by France Info).

There was a power outage in Chita on the night of February 5, Chita.ru reported. Almost half of the city and the surrounding suburbs were left without electricity. An accident occurred at the Chita CHPP-1 around midnight, the TGC-14 company reported. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the cause of the accident was a cable overload on the turbogenerator. Eyewitnesses reported that a thick column of white smoke was visible above the territory of the thermal power plant.

The Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida sentenced Ryan Root, accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump during the politician's election campaign in 2024, to life imprisonment, Reuters reports. A jury found Root, 59, guilty of all charges, including attempted murder, in September 2025. After the verdict was announced, the defendant tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen, but was prevented by federal marshals (bailiffs).

Ukrainians need your help. Join the "Warm Gathering" Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Darnitskaya Thermal Power Plant in Kyiv, damaged as a result of Russian attacks. February 4, 2026 Russia is targeting Ukrainian energy facilities. There have been severe frosts in the country since the end of January. People are freezing in apartments In Kiev, by the middle of the day on February 4, about 1,100 apartment buildings remained without heating, said Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.

Update. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on the evening of February 4 that “negotiations with the United States on the nuclear program” are scheduled in Muscat in Oman on the morning of February 6. Araghchi thanked Oman “for carrying out all the necessary activities.” US authorities refused to hold negotiations with Iran, which were planned for February 6, Axios reported, citing American officials.

People can only watch how chatbots communicate with each other (and create, for example, new religions!) Cheng Xin/Getty Images At the beginning of February, the attention of journalists and experts in the field of artificial intelligence was attracted by the new Moltbook project. This is a social network in which only AI agents can communicate - people can only observe this process from the outside. Although many experts have already doubted that Moltbook is populated exclusively by bots.

The management of the American newspaper The Washington Post informed employees about the beginning of a large-scale wave of cuts, which is expected to affect the sports, local and international news departments, The New York Times reports, citing sources. They said the newspaper would lay off about 30% of its staff, including business units and more than 300 of its roughly 800 editorial staff.

The construction company Samolet asked the state for a preferential loan or other stabilization instrument in the amount of 50 billion rubles. As RBC reported on February 4, the company’s general director Anna Akinshina stated this in a letter sent to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

In the Tambov region, at the Kochetovka-2 railway station in Michurinsk, a freight train carrying gasoline derailed, Russian Railways reports. As a result of the incident, a fire started. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties. Firefighting and recovery trains rushed to the scene. Train traffic through the station has been stopped. Due to carriage derailments and a fire at a station in the Tambov region, eight passenger trains are delayed: No. 3 Kislovodsk - Moscow, No.

The first day of negotiations on ending the Russian-Ukrainian war, in which delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States took part, ended in Abu Dhabi. Sources from TASS and Axios report that the parties agreed to continue negotiations on the morning of February 5. The Russian delegation at the negotiations in Abu Dhabi is headed by the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Igor Kostyukov.

The special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on environmental issues, ecology and transport, Sergei Ivanov, has been fired. The corresponding decree was signed by Vladimir Putin on February 4. Ivanov has held this position since August 2016. On January 31, the official turned 73 years old.

The last treaty between countries in this area, START III, is expiring. Does this mean a new arms race? Ramil Sitdikov / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia Yars strategic missile systems in a column of equipment on the eve of the Victory Parade in Moscow. April 20, 2022 The big war in Ukraine undermined trust between Russia and the United States.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has been reading the email of the former director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, since 2022, requesting Google access to his personal account. The politician himself spoke about this. Google notified Zhdanov that it would grant the FBI access to his account only in 2025, citing a court injunction. According to the politician, he submitted a request to Google, but “did not receive a clear answer.” “Why did I remember this?

One thousand four hundred and forty-second day. A new round of trilateral negotiations has begun in Abu Dhabi (there “is no provision for the press”). In Belgorod there is a blackout due to an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war.

In Moscow on the evening of February 3, police officers shot dead one of the suspects in the kidnapping of a Penza resident, said the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk. The shooting took place in one of the houses on Rublevskoye Highway. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police, together with employees of the Russian National Guard, tried to detain two people there suspected of kidnapping and killing a man in Penza on January 29.