The Russian national tennis team defeated the Portuguese team in the Davis Cup and retained a residence permit in the first group of the Euro-African zone for next year. The match in the Moscow SK "Olympic" ended with a score of 3-0. On Saturday, in a decisive pair meeting, Konstantin Kravchuk and Andrei Rublev defeated Joao Souzu and Gashtau Eliash - 6: 3, 6: 4, 6: 4.

In an accident in Mordovia, seven people were killed: a frontal collision of two domestic cars occurred. Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies clarifies that among the dead are two children. The accident occurred the day before at about 21:35 on the Saransk-Krasnoslobodsk highway at the village of Bolotnikovo. The driver of the VAZ-2110 car lost control and a collision with the Lada Priora car.

The Moscow CSKA players won over the Tula Arsenal in the match of the seventh round of the Russian Championship. The meeting in Khimki near Moscow ended with a score of 2: 1. The army has scored balls on the account of Biblis Natho (20 Pen) and Roman Eremenko (78). The Arsenal was distinguished by Alexander Zotov (50), the Premier League press service informs. CSKA scored 15 points and went to third place in the Premier League standings. Arsenal with one score is located on the last line.

In the Moscow pre -trial detention center, Sailor Silence died businessman Yuri Minkin, who was put there after complaints about extortion by a senior policeman, Echo of Moscow reports. The policeman was detained in March 2014. Minkin was previously repeatedly hospitalized from the courtroom, this time the doctors could not be saved.

The players of the St. Petersburg Zenit in the home match of the seventh round of the Russian Championship outplayed the Moscow Dynamo with a score of 3: 2, extending the victorious series at the start of the championship to record seven matches. As part of Zenit, Andrei Arshavin (40 ') and Igor Smolnikov (89'), who scored a victorious ball, distinguished themselves. Another goal defender Dynamo Douglas took into his own goal (28 ').

The Moscow branch of the Russian Red Cross helps to restore the Red Cross branch in Lugansk and Donetsk, hopes to take part in the distribution of humanitarian aid from the second Russian convoy . The KamAZs, which went through customs on Saturday night, were unloaded and prepared for the return road from Lugansk to Russia. At about 15:30, the ITAR-TASS agency reported that the first part of the column returned back to the Rostov region.

The separatists of the self -proclaimed DPR began an attack at Donetsk airport. According to local residents, the blows of the rocket systems of the Grad are applied to the strategic object from the village of Yakovlevka and the Kirovsky Coal Deposit, the Russian BBC service reports. “Huge puffs of smoke go from the airport to the station,” the citizens quoted the publication in social networks quoted.

The situation in Ukraine does not create "direct threats" for the United States. This was stated on Friday by the American President of Barack Obama at an event to raise funds to the Fund of the Democratic Party, held in Baltimore (Maryland), ITAR-TASS reports.

The idea of ​​creating a basic club for the youth team of Russia differs from the Russian Football Union (RFU) expressed by the General Secretary of General Anatoly Vorobyov of a similar proposal for the national team. This opinion was expressed by the sports director of the RFU and the senior coach of the youth team of the country Nikolai Pisarev.

The first helicopter-bearer of the Mistral type, ordered by Rosoboronexport, left the port of the French city of Saint-Naser for testing, RIA Novosti reports with reference to AFP. On board the ship, called "Vladivostok" - a crew of 200 Russian sailors. Earlier, the French president said that so far the country cannot approve the supply of the Russian ship.

In the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, they are preparing for the next exchange of prisoners of war, this time in the DPR they plan to exchange seventy Ukrainian prisoners for seventy “militias”. According to preliminary information, on Saturday there were closed video shifts of representatives of the DPR with the Ukrainian side, on which the details of the upcoming meeting were discussed. “A lot of issues need to be resolved with the Ukrainian side.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Vladimir Putin wants to destroy Ukraine and recreate the USSR. According to Yatsenyuk, NATO is the only opportunity to protect the country, although he does not expect a quick membership in the Alliance. Yatsenyuk spoke in Kyiv at a meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES). “We are still at war, and the main aggressor is the Russian Federation,” Reuters quoted the statement as Prime Minister.

All cars that the humanitarian Russian cargo to Lugansk returned to Russia on Saturday, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of the Southern Customs Administration Rayan Fakukshin. "At 20:30 Moscow time, the customs clearance of all cars was completed. The number of cars of the columns in the direction of Lugansk was completed, coincided with the number of arrivals," said Fakukshin.

Gazprom, which significantly reduced gas exports to Europe, refused to explain the reason for the reduction in supplies in the comments for Reuters . In the week, Poland and Slovakia, which made the reverse supplies of gas for Ukraine, were faced with a decrease in supplies from the Russian monopolist.

The Ukrainian military managed to reflect the assault on the separatists of the international airport in Donetsk, announced the press center of the anti-terrorist operation on his Facebook page. Earlier, the media, citing eyewitnesses, reported that the territory was fired from Grad, local residents hid from shelling in the basement. "On September 12 at 19:30, a large group of militants, with the support of six tanks, began the assault on the Donetsk airfield.