The Ministry of Transport has obliged Russian airlines, starting January 20, to seat children under 12 during flights next to accompanying adults at no additional cost. The corresponding document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. It is clarified that children and their accompanying persons must be in the same row and their seats should not be separated by a passage.

Eksmo has withdrawn from sale the book “Irena’s Children” by Canadian writer Tilar Mazzeo about Irena Sendler, a participant in the Polish Resistance movement during World War II. A message on the publisher's website thanked readers "for bringing to attention the phrase in the book" and notified that the publishing group was "undergoing an internal disciplinary proceeding." It is also noted that the book was sent for additional examination.

In the Vremivka salient , the pace of the Russian Armed Forces' advance has slowed significantly, with DeepState reporting only tactical successes near Velyka Novosilka and Neskuchne . However, Ukrainian military analyst Kostyantyn Mashovets views ( 1 , 2 ) the prospects of holding Velyka Novosilka pessimistically, as the settlement and surrounding villages are already semi-encircled by Russian forces .

News The Insider 11 January 2025 In this week's summary: In the Kursk Region, the AFU launched a limited offensive with inconclusive outcomes, while the Russian Armed Forces advanced towards Malaya Loknya. Russia's Defense Ministry announced the capture of Kurakhove, though Ukrainian forces maintain defensive positions south of the city. The Russian advance toward Velyka Novosilka in the Vremivka salient has significantly slowed.

Representatives of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime will not attend a global summit on girls' education in the Muslim world, organized by neighboring Pakistan, which kicked off on January 11 in Islamabad, although they have been extended an invitation. Pakistani Education Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui told AFP about this.

Maslovsky’s death on January 8 was confirmed by the 71st separate Jaeger Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in which he served. Video from Maslovsky's helmet-mounted camera was published in early January in Z-channels. Russia Today wrote that this is archival footage from 2024 during the battles for the village of Trudovoye in the “DPR.” The video shows two soldiers engaging in hand-to-hand combat, both soldiers inflicting multiple stab wounds on each other.

News The Insider January 11, 2025 The FSB added the Republic of Karelia to the list of terrorist organizations. Or rather, its names are in Karelian. The list included the organization “Forum of Free States of Post-Russia” and its “structural divisions”, then after the colon various names were listed, including the “Karelian National Movement”. Next, in brackets, there is a list of certain names.

Neuralink, owned by American entrepreneur Elon Musk, has implanted its chip into its third patient. He announced this during an event in Las Vegas, which was broadcast on the social network X (formerly Twitter). Musk added that the company has plans to install another 20-30 implants in 2025. In August 2024, it became known about a second patient with a successfully implanted Neuralink chip.

Recording on the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 that crashed in South Korea on December 29 was interrupted approximately four minutes before the plane collided with a concrete structure containing a localizer. This, as Yonhap reports , was determined by an analysis conducted by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Earlier it became known that on January 1, experts extracted data from one of Boeing’s black boxes.

“These are two soldiers who, although they were wounded, survived, were taken to Kyiv, and are communicating with SBU investigators. The task was not easy: usually the Russians and other North Korean soldiers finish off their wounded and do everything to ensure that no evidence remains of the participation of another state - North Korea - in the war against Ukraine. I instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to provide journalists with access to these prisoners.

A nuclear reactor was launched on the heavy nuclear cruiser Admiral Nakhimov. The TASS agency reports this with reference to a source. It noted that the physical start-up of the reactor does not mean the completion of repairs and modernization of the cruiser, “but indicates that the nuclear power plant is ready to operate at maximum power.” Modernizes and repairs the missile cruiser, which is part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation Sevmash.

News The Insider January 11, 2025 #Military report In today's summary: In the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a limited offensive with unclear results, the Russian Armed Forces advanced to Malaya Lokna The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the capture of Kurakhov, the Ukrainian military has not yet left the defense area south of the city At the Vremevsky salient, the pace of Russian advance towards Velikaya Novoselka decreased significantly The Russian Armed Forces

News The Insider January 11, 2025 The day before, General Joseph Aoun, who was elected President of Lebanon, promised in his inauguration speech to develop a comprehensive defense strategy for the country, including diplomatic, economic and military aspects, which would help expel the Israeli army from Lebanese territory and allow it to resist further attacks.

The estimated damage from unfair financial transactions in Rusnano exceeded 200 billion rubles, criminal cases were initiated in the amount of more than 43 billion rubles, director for special assignments of Rusnano JSC Evgeny Frolov told the Russian state agency TASS.

Fuel oil, spilled as a result of the crash of two tankers in the Kerch Strait, reached the coast of the Azov Sea in the occupied Zaporozhye region. This was announced by Russian-appointed “governor” Evgeny Balitsky. “At the moment, a release of fuel oil on the Azov coast has been recorded; a contaminated area with a length of 14.5 km, with small fragments of the solid fraction of fuel oil, has been discovered on the Berdyansk Spit from the open sea.