Aircraft carrier "Gerald Ford" (File photo) The United States has concentrated enough forces in the Middle East region to launch air strikes on Iran this coming weekend. American media reported this on Wednesday, citing officials in the White House and the Pentagon. According to CNN, the Pentagon informed the White House that the US military will be ready to conduct a military operation over the weekend if the corresponding order from the US President follows.

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In St. Petersburg, the court sentenced artists Anna Panteleeva and Kristina Rozhkova to two years probation and a similar probationary period, Yaroslav Gumennaya and Sergei Evstyukhin to one and a half years probation and a probationary period for the same period. They were found guilty of insulting the feelings of believers and desecrating the bodies of the dead and their burial places, the press service of the city courts reported .

On Thursday morning, police detained the brother of the British king, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, on suspicion of abuse of power amid an investigation into his ties to American financier Jeffrey Epstein. This was reported by the BBC and The Telegraph . The detention took place on the former prince’s birthday – today he turned 66 years old.

On the night of February 19, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in the city of Velikiye Luki, one of the tanks with oil products caught fire. This was announced by the Governor of the Pskov Region, Mikhail Vedernikov. According to him, there were no casualties among the civilian population or personnel of the facility. At Pskov airport, restrictions on the departure and arrival of aircraft were introduced for several hours; flight service was resumed in the morning.

Collage: Putin and Trump What Putin offers Trump to lift sanctions on Russia According to The Economist, before the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Anchorage, Moscow prepared a document providing for a “great deal” between Russia and the United States in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

It seems that denunciation in Russia is ceasing to be a secret and shameful matter, turning into a kind of social elevator and even a form of civic activism. And the state encourages people’s desire to control the life of their neighbor.

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Donald Trump US President Donald Trump extended for another year sanctions against Russia, which were introduced after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, and then in 2018 and 2022.

Aishat Baymuradova Aishat Baimuradova, who fled from domestic violence, will be buried in Armenia at the expense of the state - none of her relatives came to pick up her body. The Armenian police are investigating a criminal case of the murder of a native of Chechnya: the suspects are two Russian citizens who acted on the instructions of a “not yet identified person.” Baimuradova’s body has been in one of the Yerevan morgues for more than 120 days.

European intelligence services were skeptical about the chances of reaching an agreement to end the war in Ukraine in 2026. The heads of five European intelligence services told Reuters on condition of anonymity. According to the agency's interlocutors, the Kremlin does not want to end the war quickly. Four of them noted that Russian authorities are using negotiations with the United States to put pressure on lifting sanctions and concluding trade deals.

The heads of government of Hungary and Slovakia, Viktor Orban (left) and Robert Fico, do not want to give up Russian oil Hungary may stop exporting electricity and gas to Ukraine if Kiev does not resume Russian oil supplies to the country through the Druzhba pipeline, Viktor Orban's chief of staff Gergely Gulyas said on Thursday.