Russia for the first time detained a tanker who left the Estonian port. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. The incident occurred four days after Estonia’s naval forces tried to stop the tanker going to Russia without a flag. According to the Estonian Foreign Ministry, Green Admire’s detained tanker belongs to the flag of Liberia, belongs to the Greek company and left the port of Sallama, located near the border with the Leningrad region.

The Orthodox oligarch Konstantin Malofeev said that the criminal prosecution of employees of the book publishing houses of the “sodomistic” Popcorn Books for “LGBT-Actremism”-“our common victory”, putting their own company “Tsargrad” in the first place among the “winners”.

The news The Insider May 18, 2025 Photo: State Emergencies Service of Ukraine According to the air forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the night of May 18, Russia attacked Ukraine 273 drones of the Shakad type, as well as other unidentified types. This is a record number of drones released in Ukraine in one night. As a result of the attack in the Kiev region, one woman died and three people were injured, including a 4-year-old child.

Former US President Joe Biden revealed an aggressive form of prostate cancer, reports The New York Times with reference to the statement of his spokesman. According to the publication, the diagnosis was made on May 16, after the doctors found a “small knot” from Biden, which demanded an additional examination. As the NBC News clarifies , the cancer gave metastases in the bone.

The Israeli military discovered the protocol of the Hamas leadership meeting, which discussed that the attack on October 7, 2023 was to become an “extraordinary act” to disrupt negotiations on the normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Wall Street Journal got acquainted with the document.

Advisor to the acting governor Alexander Khinshtein Victoria Penkova suggested that the residents of the Kursk region wait for the promises of Vladimir Putin instead of housing certificates due to the war. She stated this in response to the request of a 70-year-old resident of Glushkovsky district, whose house was in the zone of constant shelling, to give him a housing certificate in exchange for the transfer of the house to the state.

The court in Voronezh sentenced the businessman Oleg Rebonsky, who testified against the former deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District (Lenvo) Valery Mumindzhanov and other military. The Rebinsky found guilty of fraud on an especially large scale and sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in a general regime colony.

According to exit charts, in the second round of repeated presidential elections in Romania, the mayor of Bucharest, Nikushor Dan is ahead of the candidate from the ultra-right “alliance for the unification of the Romanians” George Simion. According to the CURS Institute at 20:00, Dan is gaining 54.1% of the vote, the Simion - 45.9%. Similar data were cited by the Avangarde Institute (at 19:00). Polls do not take into account voting abroad.

Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that more and more signs indicate the death of Muhammad Syrevar - the head of the military wing Hamas and the younger brother of the leader of the Yahei Synera, killed in October last year. He stated this after the messages of the Saudi television channel Al-Hadath and the AL-ARABIIA related to him, who talked about the discovery of Synevar’s body in a destroyed tunnel near the European Hospital in Han-Junis in Gaza.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow sent to the pre -trial detention center the former head of Binance in the CIS and co -founder of the Blum application Vladimir Permkis. This was reported by TASS with reference to sources in law enforcement. As follows from the card on the court website, the case was opened under an article on fraud on an especially large scale. The hearing took place on May 16, but it was known about its result only today.

The press service of the Israeli Defense Army (IDF) announced the beginning of a large-scale ground operation in the northern and southern parts of the gas sector. Military operations are held as part of the Operation Chariot Gideon. According to the application, regular and reserve units of the Southern Command of the IDF were involved in the operation.

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, said that one of the Western European governments turned to the messenger with a request to “force the conservatives” in Romania on the eve of the second round of the presidential election. Which state was the initiator of the request, Durov did not specify, but accompanied the message Emoji Baget. “I categorically refused. Telegram will not limit the freedom of Romanian users or block their political channels.

In Poland, voting in the presidential election ended. According to an existit floor, the second round is the two main favorites of the campaign-the mayor of Warsaw Rafal Tshaskovsky from the ruling party "Civil Platform" and the director of the Institute of National Memory Karol Navrotsky, nominated by the Opposition Party "Law and Justice". According to the results of the exit from the sections, Tshaskovsky leads with 30.8% of the vote, Navrotsky is gaining 29.1%.