Three people were killed and at least six others injured in a drone strike on the Moscow region on Saturday night, according to Governor Andrey Vorobyov, in what Ukrainian officials said was the largest attack on the Russian capital of the war so far. The Indian Embassy in Moscow said that one Indian national was among those killed in the strikes, while another three were injured. Ukrainian drones struck multiple residential buildings in cities surrounding Moscow, Vorobyov said.

Philip Kirkorov. Photo: Hollandse Hoogte / Shutterstock / Rex Features / Vida Press Not everyone confirms the involvement of the Russian artist. Russian propaganda is trying to “appropriate” success for itself Russian singer Philip Kirkorov, who supports the actions of the Russian authorities, said in an interview with Yana Churikova that his team helped the Bulgarian singer Dara win Eurovision 2026 with the song “Bangaranga”.

Photo: Ekaterina Shtukina / EPA The independent Russian journalism project Veter has documented at least 319 cases since 2022 in which Russian soldiers were sent back to the front before completing rehabilitation from serious injuries. In 218 cases, the soldiers had already returned to the combat zone, while the remainder involved plans or threats to redeploy them. More than 80 percent of the documented cases involved coercion.

Photo: Ministry of Defense of Belarus The Ministry of Defense of Belarus announced the start of exercises for units of the combat use of nuclear weapons and nuclear support. They are carried out jointly with Russia, the Belarusian department reported. The purpose of the training is, in particular, to test the readiness of weapons and equipment to “perform tasks and organize combat use from unplanned areas,” the Belarusian military department noted.

Photo: Kirill Derevsky, Groza Security forces in Voronezh, in western Russia, tasered a student “five or six times” for refusing to unlock his phone during a raid at a local urbanism conference, independent news outlet SOTAvision reported on Sunday.

Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA The Executive Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in international competitions with national symbols. Details. The decision came into force after a meeting held on May 16-17 in Sharm el-Sheikh. It applies to all disciplines of the Russian Gymnastics Federation: artistic and rhythmic gymnastics, trampolining, sports acrobatics and sports aerobics.

Collage: “New Newspaper Europe” PEN Languages ​​of Russia is a new literary organization challenging the hegemony of the Russian language.

Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe Russia is forcibly sending hundreds of wounded to the front. After this they often go missing. During the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers were injured. In a normal situation, severe injury means that a person is no longer fit for military service, but the situation in Russia, which is losing hundreds of thousands of people at the front, is far from normal.

Photo: Ekaterina Shtukina / EPA Since 2022, the Wind project has recorded at least 319 cases in which Russian military personnel, after being seriously wounded, were sent back to the front without waiting for the end of rehabilitation. Data . 218 publications say that military personnel have already returned to the combat zone, while the rest talk about plans or threats to be sent.

On the night of May 18, Ukraine was subjected to a massive attack; 26 people were injured in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Apartment and private buildings, a university, an enterprise and other buildings were damaged, said the head of the regional military administration, Alexander Ganzha. The victims include a two-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy. Eight people were hospitalized . Other attacks. In Odessa, two people were injured as a result of a drone attack.

Photo: Cannes Film Festival The drama “Paper Tiger” was shown in Cannes, where Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson clash with the Russian mafia In Cannes, they showed “Paper Tiger” by American director James Gray about two brothers from New York who are trying to establish a business in an area protected by bad Russians. Gray's ancestors emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1923, so the topic is not foreign to him.