President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said the next meeting of the contact group to discuss the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine may take place in Minsk on December 9. True, the separatists from the DPR immediately offered another date. "A preliminary agreement was reached that the meeting in Minsk will be held on December 9. The task set by Ukraine is the approval of the schedule of the implementation of the Minsk agreements," the president said during a visit to the Kharkov region.

The taifun "Hagupit" with a wind speed of about 200 km/h reached the eastern provinces of the Philippines, from where more than 650 thousand people were evacuated earlier, Inquirer reports. On the way of typhoon, which is compared by force with the most destructive in the history of observations "Khayyan", six Filipino islands. The first blow of the element fell on the city of Dolores in the province of East Samar.

Estonia spotted a large group of Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea. The main headquarters of the country's defense forces said that the destination is the Kaliningrad region. According to Delfi , the group consists of various military aircraft, including strategic bombers. The Estonian Air Force Air Operations Center monitors what is happening near the country.

The US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Heigel, who left his post, arrived in Kabul on Saturday as part of an undeclared visit - apparently, the latter in the rank of the head of the Pentagon. The day before, as expected , President Obama submitted to Congress the candidacy of Eston Carter.

A plane flying from Moscow in Zaporozhye successfully made an emergency landing at Kharkov Airport, no one was injured. There were 40 people on board. The aircraft belongs to the Ukrainian airline Motor Sich, which recently suspended the supply of engines for Russian cruise missiles. The reason for the landing was the technical malfunction of the aircraft, the press service of the Kharkov airport said .

The head of Gazprom Alexei Miller said that the stop of the South Stream is a step to changing the work model in the European market. He assures that Gazprom has not lost anything from the decision of Putin, and the role of Ukraine for the transit of Russian gas after the construction of an underwater pipeline to Turkey will be reduced to zero. Bells lost Bulgaria, and Türkiye received a "valve" for political pressure on the European Union.

The International Olympic Committee will not comment on the investigation of the facts of using doping in Russian sports shown in the film by the German ARD television channel, said IOC President Thomas Bach. On Wednesday evening, the German ARD television channel released a documentary on the air in which the author spoke about the systematic use of doping by Russian athletes .

Cossack patrols, which in the Russian Orthodox Church are called real force in protecting the borders of the Fatherland and Peace of Citizens, are preparing to reach the first duty in Moscow - in the Kuzminki park and at VDNH. This will happen on December 6 and 7, respectively. At the beginning of next year, the Cossacks will ensure security in the parks "Tsaritsyno" and "Kolomenskoye". The Cossack patrol was created as part of the Moscow city folk squad.

The Moscow CSKA won the eighth victory in a row in the basketball Euroiled, having beaten on the house parquet in the group of groups 97:79 (32:18, 28:16, 14:19, 23:26) the Croatian "Cede". The greatest contribution to the success of the "army" was made by the French defender Nando de Col and American striker Sonny UMS, who scored 14 points. CSKA, who had already secured the final first place in the group, began the game merrily and led to a great break with the advantage of "+26".

The Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against Ukrainian deputies Yuri Bereza, Andrei Levus and Igor Mosiychuk in connection with their statements justifying the attack of militants to the capital of Chechnya Grozny. This was reported to "Interfax" by the official representative of the TFR Vladimir Markin. Earlier, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov instructed to deliver these Ukrainian politicians to him .

The social bloc in the government believes that the maternity capital program must be extended, although there is no decision on this yet, Vice Prime Minister Olga Golodets said. She assures: there is no reason to fear that the program is curtailed or the terms of payments are changing. “What will happen next (with the program), this issue worries all Russians.

The Nigerian Army reports the interception of the Russian freight aircraft, which, according to the media, transported, under detective weapons from the Central African Republic to the Chad. The British television and radio corporation of the Air Force reports that the plane flew from the capital of TsAGEG BANGI to Njamen - the capital of Chad. The nationality of the crew is not specified, but Reuters reports that the pilots speak French.

Two ash emissions of the shevel scan to a height of 5 to 9 km are recorded on Saturday in Kamchatka. Shiludo is one of the largest volcanoes of the region. “Both emissions occurred at night,” the TASS agency quotes the geophysical service of the Russian Academy of Sciences. “The first height was, according to seismic data, 9 km above the sea level.

The Committee on the Status of Players of the Russian Football Union (RFU) refused the Moscow Lokomotiv in the complaint about the decision of the chamber to resolve disputes in the case of the ex-main coach of the Leonid Kuchuk team. Lokomotiv filed a complaint with the Committee on the status of RFU players in mid -November.

The supply of Russian coal of energy brands to Ukraine resumed, the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry said on Saturday. Wagons with 50 thousand tons of coal of Russian origin are currently following Ukrainian TPPs. As the Interfax recalls, the import of energy coal from the Russian Federation to Ukraine was not carried out within two weeks.