The head of the Russian Nuclear Weapons research project, Pavel Podvig, said that the absence of launchers does not look unexpected and does not change the essence of what is happening. According to him, the military could not show them for reasons of secrecy, but even taking this into account, there are still few signs of a full-fledged missile base. “Yes, it looks like there is some activity - movements of people and equipment.

News The Insider December 30, 2025 The commander of the 95th Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the 51st Army, Dmitry Ivankevich, call sign “Starina,” was found dead with four gunshot wounds. This was reported by Russian war bloggers and musician Pyotr Lundstrem, who actively supports the war. “Starina” was accused of murdering another commander, Yuri Burakov with the call sign “Sedoy”.

Cards of trials on claims to declare people dead or missing began to disappear from the websites of Russian regional courts. As Mediazona points out , about 70 thousand cards were removed from websites. Monitoring such cases is one of the ways to count the losses of the Russian army. In total, according to the publication, over the past three years, Russian courts have received 111,569 thousand missing persons cases.

Former mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov was released from a colony in Tver, where he served a 12.5-year sentence on corruption charges. This was reported by the Yaroslavl publication 76.Ru. Urlashov became the last elected mayor of Yaroslavl. In 2013, he was detained on suspicion of extorting a bribe from deputy Sergei Shmelev. According to Shmelev, Urlashov demanded a kickback of 6% of the street cleaning contract, and after the refusal began to create problems with payment.

Is it possible to consider the time from 7 to 9 a.m. as night? It’s a strange question, but let’s assume that Lavrov just made a mistake, mentioning in his statement only the night, but not the morning. One way or another, we count: 18 at night and 23 in the morning in the Novgorod region - a total of 41. What was shot down in Adygea, the Krasnodar Territory, the Rostov and Oryol regions, as well as over the Sea of ​​Azov, was clearly not flying towards Valdai.

Initially, the palace was built as a “dacha for Yanukovych,” but after the annexation of Crimea, the construction was declared illegal. It was given to the Kovalchuk brothers close to Putin and rebuilt in accordance with the “FSO requirements”, spending at least 10 billion rubles on it. As FBK notes, inside there are royal interiors, a personal medical center, a spa, a cryochamber, a helipad, a private embankment and 24-hour security: “Now this is no longer a dacha, but a huge palace.

News The Insider December 30, 2025 A hacker under the pseudonym 888 posted on the BreachForums an advertisement for the sale of an archive of about 200 gigabytes, which he claims contains data from Bitbucket repositories associated with the European Space Agency (ESA). Missile launch analyst Georgy Trishkin drew attention to this. According to Trishkin, the leak also affects defense projects related to Airbus Defense and Space.