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Residents of Kursk have arranged a candle memorial on the anniversary of the Ukrainian incursion into the region, a TASS correspondent reported. The memorial depicts the image of cranes and bears the inscription "August 6 – we remember." Video: Yegor Gorozhankin/TASS
Russia’s Fan’s Dream organization auctioned off a signed hockey stick used by Alexander Ovechkin, striker and captain of the Washington National Hockey League (NHL) club, 940,000 rubles (some $11.586). In the 2025/2026 NHL regular season, the Washington Capitals failed to qualify for the playoffs stage. Ovechkin’s contract with the hockey club expires in late June and the Russian earlier stated that he would make a…
Eastern Finland is struggling due to the absence of Russian tourists, with the region’s economy in decline and border settlements abandoned, the Euractiv news portal reported. According to it, four years after the closure of the eastern border, communities along the frontier have still not recovered from the loss of Russian tourists. The collapse of Russian tourist flows has delivered a severe blow to the regional…
"To the victor belong the spoils." US President Donald Trump has described Venezuelan oil as the US trophy. According to Trump, the United States acted "the old-fashioned way" and gained "many, many, many times" more from Venezuelan oil than the country spent on the operation in Caracas.
Moscow must be prepared for protracted hostilities, as Europe will not allow the Ukrainian conflict to be settled in the near future, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said in an interview with TASS. “We fully understand that the West has chosen to prolong the conflict and completely rejected every path toward a peaceful settlement. All attempts at dialogue run up against the Europeans’…
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres once again did not mention that the United States was the country that carried out the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in his message marking its 81st anniversary. Earlier, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui also refrained from naming the United States as the country responsible for the 1945 bombing in their remarks at the memorial ceremony.
Washington’s European NATO allies have weak armed forces, Donald Trump said during a speech in a Las Vegas suburb in Nevada. “They don’t have a good military because they’ve relied on us too long. I told them - you can’t do that,” he emphasized.
Washington remains in talks with Iran and hopes to reach an agreement, Donald Trump said. “I’d rather make a deal because I don’t want to kill people,” he said, referring to a possible agreement with Tehran. “But we are talking. Let’s see what happens. But they respect us,” Trump added during a speech in a Las Vegas suburb in Nevada, referring to the Iranian authorities.
French President Emmanuel Macron, calling for increased pressure on Russia, is effectively ordering the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks against the civilian population, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. The diplomat drew attention to Macron’s words that “the EU and its partners will continue to increase pressure on Russia and will not succumb to fatigue or intimidation.” “By…
❗TASS News Roundup, August 5 ▪President Putin met with the Defense Ministry’s leadership ▪Donald Trump declined Vladimir Zelensky’s request for hundreds of additional Patriot interceptors at their meeting last week, The Financial Times reported ▪Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky complained that Western countries have cut their supplies of air defense missiles to Kiev threefold this year ▪Russian forces delivered a massive…
Russia has experienced the warmest July on record, Mikhail Leus, a leading meteorologist at the Fobos weather center, said. The temperature anomaly in Moscow stood at plus 0.2 degrees, whereas in St. Petersburg it was minus 0.1 degrees. The average temperature surpassed the previous record, which was set in 2010 and matched again in 2024.
❗Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, August 5: ▪Russian troops liberated the Zarnitsa community in the Zaporozhye Region ▪Russia’s Battlegroup North gained control of the Ryzhevka settlement in the Sumy Region ▪Russian air defense forces shot down 1,083 Ukrainian UAVs, 10 smart bombs, and two HIMARS rockets in the past 24 hours ▪Russian troops struck fuel and energy, transport sites used by…
