The Russian authorities have created a new branch of the military - troops of unmanned systems, declaring them one of the priorities in the war against Ukraine. However, the name of the commander was not officially announced. According to Z-bloggers and sources of the BBC Russian Service in the drone industry, this post was taken by Yuri Vaganov, a businessman and volunteer from Elektrostal near Moscow, who does not have a military education.

The Russian Investigative Committee has stopped investigating the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan after damage received in Russian airspace. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov. He is quoted by Azerbaijani media. According to the minister, Baku received an official letter from the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, which stated the termination of the investigation.

Users of the Trust Wallet crypto wallet lost more than $7 million after a Chrome browser extension that had recently received an update was hacked. On-chain analyst ZachXBT drew attention to the problem on December 25, and later the incident was confirmed by the team of the service itself. According to the developers, the vulnerability affected extension version 2.68. Customers are urged not to use this version and upgrade to 2.69.

News The Insider December 26, 2025 Vladimir Putin said that representatives of the American delegation at the meeting between Putin and Trump in Anchorage were interested in the possibility of mining cryptocurrency at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. Putin's statement was made at a meeting with representatives of Russian business, held behind closed doors on December 24.

The Minister of Housing and Communal Services and Energy of the Republic, Vyacheslav Yemelyanov, said at a briefing that six districts (uluses) of Yakutia have almost run out of coal necessary for the operation of boiler houses. According to him, there are problems with fuel in the Ust-Aldan, Churapchinsky, Tattinsky, Megino-Kangalassky, Amginsky and Gorny uluses. This was reported by LB Stream, a news project of the People of Baikal publication.

Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush, 2001. Photo: Kremlin The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released transcripts of Vladimir Putin’s meetings with U.S. President George W. Bush, held in 2001, 2005, and 2008. The publication of these previously classified documents became possible thanks to a court decision which determined that they fell under the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.

The trial of the defendants in the case lasted four years, during which time actor Andrei Neretin, who played deputy Nalivkin, died . Initially, the prosecutor's office demanded 14 years of strict regime for the authors of the project. As a result, the Ussuriysky District Court of the Primorsky Territory sentenced them to 6 years of probation.

The courts of the Bryansk region ordered educational institutions in one of the districts to include in their internal documents a ban on the work of “foreign agents”. Mediazona drew attention to this.

The Moscow City Court sentenced former Russian Foreign Ministry employee Arseny Konovalov to 12 years in prison in a treason case, TASS reports citing the FSB press service. The sentence also provides for a fine of 100 thousand rubles and restriction of freedom for a year. The FSB detained Konovalov in March 2024.

News The Insider December 26, 2025 #Military report In today's summary In the Kharkov direction, the Russian military unsuccessfully tried to cross the border at a new section across the Lozovaya River On the Seversky ledge, units of the Russian Armed Forces established control over the village of Dronovka north of Seversk In the southern Donetsk direction, Russian attack aircraft marked themselves with a “flag stick” in the center of Gulyai-Polye Ukrainian military channels explain the

The wife of former deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma Maxim Vasiliev, Svetlana, resigned as a deputy of the Kursk City Assembly. This was announced by the Governor of the Kursk region Alexander Khinshtein. Today Maxim Vasiliev was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison in the case of embezzlement during the construction of defensive structures in the border areas of the Kursk region. “I think this is the only right decision.

The Abakan Garrison Military Court sentenced Mikhail Kazantsev, a participant in the war in Ukraine, to 12 years in a special regime colony in the case of illegal imprisonment and torture. He kept the girl in his apartment for five days and tortured her, including dousing her with boiling water and driving her naked onto the balcony in twenty-degree frost. The verdict , handed down back in September, drew attention to the publication “Sibir.

News The Insider 26 December 2025 Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush, 2001. Photo: Kremlin The National Security Archive at George Washington University has released transcripts of Vladimir Putin’s meetings with U.S. President George W. Bush, held in 2001, 2005, and 2008. The publication of these previously classified documents became possible thanks to a court decision which determined that they fell under the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.

Ex-deputy of the Kursk Regional Duma Maxim Vasiliev was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for embezzlement during the construction of defense structures. He was also given a fine of 800 thousand rubles. Vasilyev will serve his sentence in a general regime penal colony. The ex-deputy fully admitted his guilt, concluding a pre-trial deal with the investigation. Vasilyev was arrested in April 2025 by decision of the Meshchansky Court of Moscow in an embezzlement case.

Former Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Sadovenko died at the age of 56. TASS reports this with reference to sources close to the Colonel General. According to the agency, he died yesterday, December 25, due to heart disease. Yuri Sadovenko was born on September 11, 1969 in Zhitomir (Ukraine). Graduated from the Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School.