Bild and The Telegraph describe possible scenarios for a Russian attack on NATO countries Damian Lemanski / Bloomberg / Getty Images Polish K2 Black Panther tanks during military exercises near the Suwalki Gap, June 17, 2026 In the West, there are increasingly fears that Vladimir Putin does not want peace negotiations and is planning another escalation, not only in Ukraine, but also against NATO countries.

Two men stole a necklace from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK), which could be worth more than four million dollars, writes BBC News. The jewelry was part of an exhibition by the jewelry company Van Cleef & Arpels. Police said two suspects entered the exhibition on Thursday afternoon using tickets. They approached the glass display case where the exhibit was kept, broke it and took the necklace, after which they disappeared. One of the robbers allegedly had a firearm on him.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree determining the amount of monthly “humanitarian benefits” for close relatives of people convicted in absentia on “political” charges. The document published on the official legal information portal states that the amount of the benefit will be equal to the minimum wage ( minimum wage ). The resolution comes into force on the date of publication.

The Russian army struck the village of Myla on the outskirts of Kyiv on the evening of August 28, setting fire to a warehouse where ammunition was being stored. The fire triggered a series of detonations, sending flames into nearby private homes. The explosions were powerful enough that authorities shut down traffic entirely on the Zhytomyr highway between the 15th and 32nd kilometer markers. Nearly 400 people were evacuated from the area affected by the strike.

The London club For Your Eyes Only has canceled the concert of blogger and singer Instasamka (real name Daria Zoteeva), which was scheduled for November 14. This decision was made after a complaint from the founder of the Russian Democratic Society in London, Ksenia Maksimova, writes Echo. The letter she sent to the club states that Instasamka transferred money to the Russian military and was included in the database of the Ukrainian “Peacemaker”.

Economists Sergei Vakulenko and Vyacheslav Shiryaev argued about how large the fuel crisis is. We retell the most interesting of their debates AFP / Scanpix / LETA Smoke above the Gazprom Neft plant in Moscow. July 18, 2026 On August 17, Sergei Vakulenko, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Berlin Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies , said on The Breakfast Show that, despite Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, oil refining in the country remains at a fairly high level.

Russian Foreign Ministry representative Maria Zakharova called the words of the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Alen Simonyan provocative that this country is ready to accept Russians fleeing mobilization.

Vladimir Putin has come up with a new justification for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He explained it using the example of the killer whale-polar bear food chain. This was discussed during a meeting between the president and teachers dedicated to Knowledge Day. Teacher Dmitry Balanchukov from the Belgorod region talked about how he went to the North Pole. Putin asked the teacher if he had seen polar bears there.

Lawyer Natalia Tikhonova reported details of the detention of Elena Morgunova, the wife of artist and actionist Pavel Krisevich. According to her, the woman was threatened, “blackmailed by her parents,” and also abused her dog, pulling the leash and trying to throw it out into the street.

Oddly enough, the creator of the show found her experience in sitcoms useful Hulu Hulu is streaming the detective series Furious, about a woman who stalks and kills people likely involved in the death of her friend. Her case is being investigated by an FBI agent who has more in common with the criminal than she seems. “Furious” is one of the most notable shows in August; it has a nearly 100% approval rating among critics on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

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LIGA Group has frozen the project to build a laptop production plant in Yekaterinburg. Its general director Alexey Lezhnin told RBC about this. The plant was planned to be launched on the territory of the Cosmos industrial park in 2027. According to Lezhnin, the project was stopped, among other things, because the central plant for the production of Karat microchips had not yet been launched on the territory of Cosmos.

Moscow residents voted to leave the monument to Alexander Pushkin in its original location. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow City Hall. In total, more than 740 thousand people took part in the electronic voting, which took place on August 28 from 08:00 to 14:00. How many of them opposed the relocation of the monument is not specified. Nikita Mikhalkov suggested moving the monument to Pushkin.

As a result of the attack on a warehouse in the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region, 27 people were killed. Another 42 people, including four children, were injured of varying degrees of severity, said the head of the local regional military administration, Timur Tkachenko. Among the dead is the head of the Dmitrievskaya community in the Kyiv region, Taras Didich. Tkachenko stressed that the number of victims could increase. Russian troops attacked the Kiev region on the evening of August 28.

In the Rostov region, a regional emergency regime has been introduced since August 28. The corresponding order of Governor Yuri Slyusar was published on the region’s legal information portal. The document states that due to the increasing frequency of attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on logistics facilities, shipping in the Azov-Black Sea basin has been disrupted. This led to producers accumulating “significant volumes” of agricultural products.