The news The Insider August 14, 2024 In today's report: The Armed Forces of Ukraine expand the combat zone in the Kursk region towards Rylsk -Kursk and in the southern part of the region The Ukrainian TV channel TSN issued a report from Sudzhi after a statement by a representative of the regional administration on control over the city The Wall Street Journal - the Russian command throws individual units from Ukraine to the Kursk region The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation intend to

The Insider News August 14, 2024 On August 13, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation of the Maritime Collegium, the chairman of which was appointed the former head of the Russian Security Council and now the presidential adviser on shipbuilding, Nikolai Patrushev.

Those who attacked 87-year-old Dmitry Grinchy, who allegedly criticized the Wagner PMC fighters, were released from the temporary detention facility. This was reported by Vazhnye Istorii, citing sources. The attackers will be given a written undertaking not to leave the area as a preventive measure, the publication specifies. Earlier, 87-year-old Dmitry Grinchy, who was beaten up by Z-patriots on a Moscow bus, was questioned by the Investigative Committee.

Russian billionaire and co-owner of Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman has filed a lawsuit against Luxembourg in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) over the freezing of assets in various countries that he owns through Luxembourg holding companies, the Vedomosti newspaper writes .

Antifake Fake from the 60 Minutes program: Most of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that entered the Kursk region were destroyed The Insider 14 August 2024 In the program “60 minutes” on the TV channel “Russia 1”, the commander of the special forces “Akhmat” Apti Alaudinov spoke about the situation in the Kursk region: "The situation, in principle, has been brought under control. Most of the territory where the enemy was, as they say, has already been completely blocked off.

The Obninsk City Court of the Kaluga Region has sentenced 70-year-old school teacher Oleg Elmanov to two and a half years of suspended imprisonment in the case of an attempted arson of a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by Mediazona, citing the court's press service. The teacher was accused of attempted destruction of someone else’s property (Part 3 of Article 30, Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

For the first time in 19 years, China has recorded a reduction in loans to the real sector of the economy, Bloomberg writes , citing data published by the People's Bank of China. This means that for the first time since 2005, the country has repaid more debt than it took on. Bank loans in local currency, excluding loans to financial institutions, fell by 77 billion yuan ($10.7 billion) at the end of July from the previous month.

Thailand's Constitutional Court has found Prime Minister Setthu Thaweesin (Phua Thai Party) guilty of violating the ethics code. The head of government has been removed from office, the Associated Press reports . Setthu was charged over the appointment in spring 2024 of Phichit Cheungban, who served a six-month prison sentence in 2008 for attempting to bribe a criminal court, to a ministerial post. The minister also resigned amid controversy over his appointment.

The day before, Russian authorities vehemently denied that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had control over Sudzha. According to a report by the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti , Alexei Kondratyev, an aide to the acting governor of the Kursk region, asserted that Sudzha remained under the control of the Russian army. “The Russian tricolor [flag] is flying on the administration building. This should be stressed. Sudzha is ours,” Kondratyev claimed.

The authorities of the Belgorod Region have declared a state of emergency. "We are making a decision to declare a regional emergency throughout the Belgorod Region from today, in order to provide additional protection to the population and to provide additional support to the victims," ​​Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a video message published on his Telegram channel on the morning of August 14.

This video had previously circulated on Russian military Telegram channels in May 2024, described at that time as a “strike [aerial bomb] ODAB-1500 [on Ukrainian positions] in Vovchansk.” John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), confirmed the geolocation of the building — a former college — as being in the southern part of Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Billionaire Herman Khan, who, according to media reports, "maintains close relations" with Vladimir Putin, withdrew $280 million from Swiss banks on the eve of the war with Ukraine in order to avoid European sanctions. However, the money was still blocked, writes the Swiss publication Tages-Anzeiger, citing a decision by the Federal Administrative Court.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced eleven defendants in the case of the local cell of "USSR citizens" to real prison terms. According to the prosecutor's office, all defendants were taken into custody in the courtroom: two "organizers" will spend six years in prison, "participants" - from two to four years. According to the investigation, the defendants held meetings and video conferences where the ideology of the "USSR" was promoted.

Four tactical missiles and 117 aircraft-type UAVs were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over Russian territory at night, the Defense Ministry reported . 37 UAVs and four tactical missiles were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk region , 37 UAVs destroyed over Voronezh region , 17 UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region , 11 - over Nizhny Novgorod , 9 - over Volgogradskaya , 3 - over Bryansk , 2 - above Orlovskaya , 1 - over the Rostov region.

History How Iranian Azerbaijan narrowly avoided becoming the USSR's “new territory”: Excerpt from “Iran's Kremlin Agents” by Mikhail Krutikhin Mikhail Krutikhin 14 August 2024 The creation of puppet “people's republics” with the goal of annexing them to Russia—like Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the so-called “LDNR”—isn't a new tactic from Putin.