On October 21, the team behind the PHP programming language said it had discovered two vulnerabilities . Both scored 9.2 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, a critical severity rating. The vulnerabilities allow attackers to run code remotely on a server without authentication. This could let them gain unauthorized access to files and databases, insert malicious code or alter a website’s content, redirect traffic to other sites, or use the server for DDoS attacks or spam campaigns.

Kristina Solovyeva / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Steve Witkoff (seen from behind) at a meeting with Vladimir Putin on October 21 U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on October 21 for talks on ending the war in Ukraine. At the start of the meeting, Putin announced that Russia had freed Stephen Hubbard, a U.S.

In an interview with Pavel Zarubin, a correspondent for the Russian state broadcaster VGTRK, Vladimir Putin spoke for the first time about his talks with Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and outlined Russia’s position. Putin said Russia had agreed with U.S. representatives that it was ready to resume three-way talks.

Danylo Antoniuk / Ukrinform / NurPhoto / Getty Images U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a joint press conference in Kyiv. September 6, 2026 On October 20, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and representatives of European countries in Oslo, where he presented his proposals for a peace settlement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin, in an interview with VGTRK correspondent Pavel Zarubin, for the first time commented on negotiations with Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and voiced Russia’s position. According to Putin, Russia has agreed with US representatives that it is ready to resume trilateral contacts.

Donald Trump called Elon Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on the military version of Starlink in Ukraine, sources told The Wall Street Journal. Trump expressed frustration that the system still had a speed cap of about 160 kilometers per hour, the newspaper’s sources said. The restriction left some Ukrainian attack drones and interceptor drones ineffective against Russian attacks.

A new installment of our “Emigrant Questionnaire” series! Our first questionnaire was completed by Monetochka, who lives in Vilnius, and the second by Elmira Drau, a 32-year-old English teacher in Yerevan. This time, journalist Vladimir Raevsky tells us about life in London. What’s your name? Vladimir Raevsky. Where do you live, and how long have you lived there? I’ve been living in London for three years now. What do you love most about your new country?

Updated. Trump confirmed that Musk lifted Starlink restrictions for Ukraine. When asked by a journalist whether he called Elon Musk asking him to lift the restrictions, Trump replied: “I don’t want to comment on that. You know, whether I called or someone else called, it doesn't matter.

Yegor Kreed / YouTube Singer Yegor Kreed faced fierce criticism from “patriotic” commentators after appearing in his new music video , “Mily ublyudok” (“Sweet Bastard”), wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt with a design inspired by the Soviet film “Come and See” (“Idi i smotri”). About "Idi i smotri" “Come and See,” directed by Elem Klimov, was released in 1985 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Soviet victory in World War II.

Officers from Poland’s Internal Security Agency have detained a 22-year-old Georgian citizen in connection with the murder of Russian performance artist Semyon Skrepetsky, said Tomasz Siemoniak, the coordinator of Poland’s intelligence services. RMF24 identified the man as Makhmud A. The outlet reported that he helped the suspected killer, who had been detained earlier, by keeping Skrepetsky’s home under surveillance and gathering information about his habits. Makhmud A.

The United States is once again engaged in a peaceful settlement of Russia’s war with Ukraine. But Kyiv is not expecting a serious breakthrough Danylo Antoniuk / Ukrinform / NurPhoto / Getty Images US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during a joint press conference in Kyiv.

Every fact in the Russian Justice Ministry’s online exhibition was checked, and the “foreign agents” who found errors in it were knowingly spreading false information, Deputy Justice Minister Oleg Sviridenko said in a TASS interview cited by the news outlet Agentstvo. In late July, the Justice Ministry posted an exhibition on its website titled “Zashchita suvereniteta Rossiyskogo gosudarstva.

Warning: This article contains profanity and descriptions of sexual violence. Irina, a St. Petersburg resident, has accused an officer at Police Station No. 14 in the city’s Frunzensky District of abuse, beatings, and sexual violence. It began on October 10, when she filed a police report alleging rape. According to Irina , the day before, she had agreed to visit a man she had met a while earlier through the Daivinchik dating bot. She had occasionally messaged with him, mostly about soccer.

Three-way talks between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine could resume in November. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed this, following statements from the Kremlin that it was ready for such talks. “We’ve received feedback that Russia supports a three-way meeting between our teams. The American side is proposing that we hold it as soon as possible. We support that,” he said late on October 21.

Rosneft officials are concerned that even a few more months of the war in Ukraine could cause lasting damage to the company’s business, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. The company’s finances are deteriorating as profits fall and debt rises, Bloomberg’s sources said, despite expectations that the war in the Middle East would boost its earnings. Rosneft has suffered significant damage from Ukrainian strikes on its oil refineries.