The Russian group in Kupyansk was surrounded, the Ukrainian side reports. Representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that they carried out a successful counterattack in the Kharkov region. The supply of the Russian army in this area, according to them, has been completely cut off. The Russian Ministry of Defense does not recognize the encirclement. Vladimir Zelensky arrived today in the Kupyansky direction.

We discuss the possibility of creating a demilitarized zone in the Donetsk region and various versions of the peace plan in the program “Facing the Event” with political scientist Pyotr Oleshchuk.

The Russian authorities considered it inappropriate to build the North Siberian Railway, which could connect the north of Siberia and the BAM, as well as provide Russian raw materials with additional access to China. Two years ago, Putin spoke about the need for this construction. But against the backdrop of war and a slowing economy, the project turned out to be unviable.

US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump is “extremely disappointed on both sides of this war,” White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt said . According to her, Trump is “tired of meetings for the sake of meetings”; he “no longer needs talk, he needs action.” The US President later, answering questions from reporters at the White House, said that Washington was close to concluding an agreement with Kiev and Moscow: “I thought we were very close to concluding an agreement with Russia.

Mark Zdor Decolonial activist Mark Zdor was accused of attempting to rape several girls from Russia. We are talking about the events of the summer and autumn of 2022 that occurred in Tbilisi. One of them told Idel.Realii the details and provided a copy of the statement to the Georgian police.

The European Union has frozen Russian assets in the EU indefinitely, reports the Associated Press. As the agency notes, the decision was made using a special procedure designed for economic emergencies. The assets will remain blocked until Russia abandons the war against Ukraine and compensates for the damage caused to the Ukrainian side during the hostilities.

UK banks have opposed plans to use frozen Russian assets due to possible legal risks, the Financial Times writes , citing senior bankers. As the newspaper notes, British banks hold about eight billion pounds sterling (more than $10 billion) of Russian assets. Bank officials said they could be exposed to significant legal risk if the funds were used to secure a loan to Ukraine.

Illustrative photo Rosfinmonitoring added 18-year-old Nikita Zavorotny from the village of Pokrovskoye, Neklinovsky district, Rostov region, to the list of terrorists and extremists. It is unknown what kind of criminal case or sentence this is connected with. This fall, the teenager could have been subjected to “carousel arrests.” On the evening of September 10, Zavorotny was detained by the police and kept in the police station for a day.

Ukrainian military near Kupyansk, May 2025 The Ukrainian military, the DeepState monitoring project, which monitors the situation at the front and is close to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, as well as Russian pro-war telegram channels simultaneously report on the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Kupyansk. According to them, Ukrainian units are gradually recapturing city blocks.

Illustrative photo A participant in the war against Ukraine, Mukhtar Korkmazov, achieved a commuted sentence for illegal possession of weapons, which was handed down by the Pyatigorsk Garrison Military Court in September of this year. For finding and keeping the cache, he was sentenced to a fine and seven years in a maximum security colony. The case file was discovered by the Kavkaz.Realii website.