The general director of the Patriot park, Igor Vasiliev, was detained on Monday, October 5, on suspicion of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale. The TASS agency and the Fontanka publication write about this with reference to sources. The materials in the Vasiliev case include a bribe in the amount of 80 million rubles. On Tuesday, October 6, he will have to choose a preventive measure. The investigation is requesting an arrest.

On October 2, Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery completely stopped oil refining due to equipment damage caused by a drone attack. Two industry sources told Reuters about this. According to the agency, the shutdown of the plant will likely worsen the fuel shortage caused by strikes on oil refineries in Russia.

In the summer, more than 176 thousand tons of fuel, mostly diesel, were sent from South Korean ports to the Russian Far East. This data is provided by The Guardian, which studied port records and information from ship tracking systems. In July and August, seven tankers made 14 voyages to Russia, three of which are under UK and EU sanctions. The largest carrier was the sanctioned tanker Layla, which delivered 57 thousand tons of diesel from Ulsan to Vladivostok over two voyages.

In today's summary: In the Slavic direction there are battles for Krivaya Luka on the right bank of the Seversky Donets River In the Pokrovsk direction, a “catastrophic situation” is reported for the Russian military east of Dobropolye In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the capture of a settlement 13 km from the known LBS Konstantin Mashovets - in 2026, only one new motorized rifle division in a truncated form was created as part of the RF Armed Forces Air

On October 6, the complex emergency response exercise KPU-2026, the largest this year in the nuclear industry, began at the Beloyarsk NPP in Zarechny. These are just one of many non-military exercises that have taken place in Russia since the beginning of the year.

Hackers used the Chinese AI agent Artex AI to attack the largest banks in South Korea and stole the personal data of 68 thousand people, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing South Korean officials. According to the publication, this is one of the first incursions into the global financial system made with the help of artificial intelligence. The attacks were discovered last week and affected at least seven financial companies.

US President Donald Trump has approved the use of a firing squad to execute former US Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009. This was reported by CNN. The last time a military person was shot in the United States was in 1945, and the last death penalty against an American service member occurred in 1961.

Andrey Mikhailov Available in English Russians who went on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of detention in the Folkston D. Ray James migration prison in the US state of Georgia were sent to a punishment cell. The wife of one of them, Andrei Mikhailov, Ksenia, told The Insider about this. “Last Friday the administration learned about the impending action.

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has reported the arrest of August Hanning, the former president of the country’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), on suspicion of espionage and treason. Along with Hanning, the agency detained Manfred D., the former head of his office. Hanning headed the BND from December 1998 to November 2005. According to prosecutors, in 2010 Hanning made an arrangement with Manfred D. to receive information from the BND in exchange for payment.

At the height of the harvesting campaign in the DPRK, residents flocked to the harvested fields to pick up the remaining ears of corn after the harvest. Some of them, under this pretext, steal crops that have not yet been harvested, so some farms have begun to strictly limit access to fields. This was reported by Daily NK, citing a source in South Pyongan Province.

Tourists near a closed bridge, Dandong, China, January 2026. Photo: Seoul Economic Daily China plans to open in the coming days a new bridge to North Korea, which was completed back in 2014 but has not yet been used. Korean historian Andrei Lankov reported on his Telegram channel that on October 5, the lights on the bridge were turned on and cars were moving along it.

The Oxygen Forensic Detective program, the Russian version of which is called "Mobile Forensic Investigator", was used to investigate the laptop of Hunter Biden, the son of the former US president. Radio Liberty found this out. On the eve of the 2020 election, Biden Jr. was accused of corruption and conflicts of interest, including based on files from his computer.

The former commander-in-chief of the Navy of Kazakhstan was detained as part of a criminal investigation into the death of military personnel during exercises in the Caspian Sea. This was reported by the Kazinform agency with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. However, neither the publication nor the department indicated the name of the detainee.

The American publishing house Allerton Press, which, after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, announced the cessation of cooperation with Russian government agencies, published a translation of an article from the Moscow University Bulletin. According to the publication “That’s So,” this happened back in 2024. Among the co-authors of the work “Galvanic correction of neural control of gaze setting.

The European Commission (EC) is going to take five steps before admitting new members to the European Union. This was stated on the EC website following the meeting of European Commissioners in Strasbourg on October 6.