In Krasnodar, the first school was opened on the assembly and management of drones. This was announced by the head of the city Evgeny Naumov. According to him, students will work out for free to work out the skills of assembling and piloting drones, as well as printing on a 3D printer. Training will be held on models of real drones and simulators. “The first pupils will be students of the schools of the Western District.

Photo: Sarah Yenesen / EPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York. Online broadcasting led The Independent. Before the start of his speech, members of many delegations defiantly left the Hall of the GA. Netanyahu rejected the accusations that Israel had a General Gazide. According to him, in this case, the IDF would not urge the inhabitants to leave the territory of the enclave.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky prior to a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, 17 August 2025. EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET The European Commission has privately proposed that EU member states use frozen Russian Central Bank assets to fund a new €140 billion loan to Ukraine, Politico reported on Friday, citing an internal memo.

Novyevropa calculated: the war participants received no more than 2.3% of the mandates in the elections, and in municipalities they lost in popularity to other candidates Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta At a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova reported that 1035 participants from 1663 won the elections. Two weeks ago, she said that in the elections of such candidates 1616, and in mid -August, there were 1397.

Photo: Telegram channel Anton Dolina The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the film critic of Anton Valley under the article on evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (part 2 of article 330.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported in the metropolitan administration of the UK.

Tigran Keosayan. Photo: smotrim.ru Russian film director and propagandist Tigran Keosayan has died at the age of 59, after months in a coma, his wife, editor-in-chief of state propaganda tool RT Margarita Simonyan announced on Friday. “Tigran went to meet his maker overnight. Thank you to everyone who prayed. Please don’t call me or the family for now. Thank you all, thank you,” Simonyan wrote .

The main thing from the investigation of Reuters Archbishop Markel during the service, Slobosia-Megura, Moldova, September 6, 2025. Photo: Marton Monus / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta For at least a year and a half, Russia has been organizing pilgrimage trips for priests of the Moldavian Orthodox Church, controlled by the Moscow Patriarchate, Reuters found out.

The Afipsky oil refinery following the drone strike. Photo: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, in southern Russia, on Thursday night, causing one of the plant’s units to catch fire, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Friday.

Russia is turning to African women and conscripted North Koreans to tackle its defence worker shortage An Alabuga Start participant takes part in Victory Day festivities in Yelabuga, a town in Tatarstan, Russia, 9 May 2024. Photo: Alabuga Start US President Donald Trump has said Ukraine could win back all of the territory it has lost in the ongoing war, but Vladimir Putin shows no signs of wanting a peace deal, or reducing the military offensive.

Tigran Keosayan, screenshot: smotrim.ru Tigran Keosayan, screenshot: smotrim.ru The director and TV presenter Tigran Keosayan died at the age of 59. This was announced by his wife, editor -in -chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan. “Tigran went to the creator tonight. Thanks to everyone who prayed. Please do not call me or my family now. Thanks to everyone, thanks, ”wrote Simonyan. In January, it became known that Keosayan survived the clinical death and is in a coma.

In the Krasnogorsk near Moscow, the facade of the main house of the estate Nikolskoye-Uryupino, included in the register of objects of cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia, fell. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Ilyinskoye. News ”, the publication was shared by the Moscow Regional Branch of the All -Russian Society for the Protection of History and Culture Monuments (VOOPIK). The published shots show that part of the northern facade and colonnade hit the main house of the estate.

A local politician from the ruling United Russia party has been found dead in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region, regional news sites KP-Kuban and 93.ru reported on Thursday, citing eyewitnesses, one of whom said that the deputy’s hands had been bound behind his back. Vitaly Kapustin.

50% of the dressing of the peninsula were left without fuel. How do residents cope with a gasoline crisis? An empty scoreboard with zeros at a gas station in Crimea, September 25, 2025. Photo: RIA Novosti / satellite / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta Since the end of August, in the annexed Crimea, problems with gasoline supplies. Local residents complain about the lack of fuel of the AI-92 and AI-95 brands.

US F-35 fighter jets escort a Russian Ilyushin Il-96-300 aircraft carrying Vladimir Putin after take off from Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 15 August 2025. Photo: EPA/GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN European officials warned Moscow this week that NATO would respond to future Russian violations of its airspace with “full force”, including by shooting down Russian jets, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

Photo: Clemens Bilan / EPA European diplomats warned the Kremlin that NATO was ready to respond with “all power” to the violation of the airspace of the Alliance - including knocking down Russian planes, writes Bloomberg with reference to officials familiar with the situation. This week, a meeting of representatives of the Russian authorities, as well as France, Germany and the UK, took place in Moscow.