The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the defeat of the Lvov State Aviation Repair Plant as a result of an attack by the Oreshnik missile system on the night of January 9. The military department refers to information allegedly confirmed by several independent sources. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the company carried out repairs and maintenance of Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft, including F-16 and MiG-29 fighters transferred from Western countries.

Over the past two weeks, at least 15 “shadow fleet” tankers involved in transporting sanctioned oil have changed their flags to Russian ones. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing data from Lloyd's List Intelligence. According to analysts, changing the flag to Russian is a way to avoid the risk of detention by the US military for ships traveling to and from Venezuela.

Two high-ranking officials in Cyprus have resigned after the publication of a video in which civil servants allegedly admit to corruption schemes. The Cypriot authorities called what was happening a “hybrid war,” possibly waged by a foreign state—Russia. Last week, an eight-minute video from independent researcher Emily Thompson appeared on Twitter (X).

Yevgeny Primakov Jr., head of Rossotrudnichestvo — the Russian “Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation” — has officially confirmed that so-called “ Russian Houses ” (Kremlin-funded vectors for cultural exchange and political influence ) in several African countries were opened by a “well-known private military company.” In a recently released interview with the business daily Vedomosti , he also said

Paramount has increased pressure on Warner Bros. Discovery in an attempt to derail the company's deal with Netflix. The studio announced its intention to nominate its own directors to the Warner Bros. board. and filed a lawsuit demanding disclosure of information about how management came to the conclusion that Netflix's proposal was superior, The New York Times reports .

Trump’s order explicitly bans funding for harm reduction and safe consumption programs for people with addictions. These initiatives included measures such as syringe exchange points to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and methadone therapy to support gradual addiction treatment. These approaches, which have proven effective in reducing mortality, are being replaced by forced treatment.

The Trump administration ignored the statistics: thanks to housing first programs, the number of homeless people in Finland fell by 68% from 2008 to 2024, and in Norway, it nearly halved between 1996 and 2020. No more safe consumption Trump’s order explicitly bans funding for harm reduction and safe consumption programs for people with addictions.

Kamchatka Governor Vladimir Solodov, at a meeting with regional officials on January 12, said that he had asked the federal authorities to improve the operation of mobile Internet in the region. In Kamchatka, communications have been blocked for two weeks, although the region is located seven thousand kilometers from the border with Ukraine. The publication “7x7” drew attention to this.

British media regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's social network Twitter (X) to determine whether chatbot Grok violates laws protecting UK users from content that may be illegal, Reuters reports . We are talking about sexual deepfakes created with the help of artificial intelligence.

Cyprus police reported the disappearance of the former head of Uralkali, Vladislav Baumgertner. According to her, the Russian citizen went missing on January 7 in Limassol, where he lived. “A 56-year-old man, approximately 1.90m tall, of slim build, with gray hair. At the time of leaving [the house] he was wearing black shorts and a black short-sleeve T-shirt,” says a statement on the police website.

On December 2, the Russian military attacked Ukrainian gas infrastructure facilities. Z-channels wrote about attacks on a gas storage facility in the Dnepropetrovsk region. In the Odessa region, as a result of UAV attacks, the power supply was disrupted for 44 thousand households. In the Chernihiv region, there were also blackouts due to drone strikes on energy facilities in the Koryukovsky district.

For the first time, an expensive foreign (not registered in Russia) drug pitolisant will be purchased from the state budget for Russian woman Alena Tsytsareva with narcolepsy . According to Kommersant, the Moscow Health Department planned the corresponding purchase.

The death toll during the protests, which have been ongoing in Iran since the end of December, has exceeded 500 people, Reuters reports , citing data from the human rights organization HRANA. According to these data, at least 490 protesters and at least 48 security forces were killed. In addition, more than 10,600 people have been arrested in the past two weeks. Iranian authorities did not provide any data on deaths or arrests.

The tragedy that happened was made public by the municipal deputy of the Obruchevsky district, 22-year-old member of the Russian Maoist Party Roman Galenkin. According to him, “after this terrible story, a number of employees submitted their resignations, not wanting to be part of what was happening within the walls of the social house.” At the same time, the director of the institution, Alexander Bondar, who has held this position since May 2025, chose to remain silent.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said at a government meeting on January 12 that the situation with the region’s energy supply has reached a critical level amid ongoing shelling, Kommersant reports . He noted that losses of energy capacity are almost “catastrophic” in all areas.