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MOSCOW, April 20 – RIA Novosti. The Russian Defense Ministry has shown how Su-34 frontline bombers carried out a bombing strike against a Ukrainian military facility. The video shows Su-34s taking off with bombs suspended under the fuselage. Then aerial footage shows an air strike on an industrial building. The buildings in the video resemble those of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. “In the course of the combat mission, Russian Air Force crews practiced practical air strikes against buried long-term fortified structures used by nationalist formations and warehouses with weapons and ammunition, including foreign-made ones,” the Defense Ministry said. They specified that the air strikes were carried out singly and in pairs, and the results of the strikes were recorded by means of objective control of aircraft and drones. The post Su-34s bombed a Ukrainian military facility appeared first on Russian News.

MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Russian Air Force aircraft struck 60 military facilities in Ukraine, destroying two storage depots for Tochka-U tactical missile heads and three AFU control posts. Major General Igor Konashenkov, official spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Tuesday. “Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Air Force carried out strikes on 60 military facilities of Ukraine. Two storage depots for Tochka-U tactical missile heads were destroyed in the areas of Chervonaya Polyana and Balakleya,” Konashenkov said. According to him, three command posts of Ukrainian troops and 53 areas of concentration of the enemy’s manpower and military equipment were also hit. In addition, the Russian military suppressed 13 strongholds of AFU units. “During the night, high-precision airborne missiles of the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) suppressed 13 strongholds of Ukrainian troops units, as well as the enemy’s manpower and military equipment concentration sites in the areas of Slavyansk, Barvenkovo and Popasna,” Konashenkov noted. He also added that the missile forces and artillery struck 1,260 military facilities of the AFU. According to him, 25 control points of Ukrainian units in the areas of Mykolaiv and Kirovsk, two missile and artillery weapon depots in the areas of Voskresensk and Mykolaiv, two Buk-M1 surface-to-air missile launchers in the areas of Gulyaypol and Mykolaivka II, as well as 1,214 places of concentration of the enemy’s manpower were hit. The post Air Forces destroyed two storage sites for Tochka-U missiles in Ukraine appeared first on Russian News.

The SBU published Medvedchuk’s appeal in which he asked to exchange him for the residents of Mariupol. At the same time, the Rossiya 24 TV channel showed the British prisoners who had asked Johnson for help in exchanging them for the Ukrainian politician. The head of the political council of the Ukrainian party “Opposition Platform – For Life” Viktor Medvedchuk asked to exchange him for “defenders and residents of Mariupol”. The politician’s appeal was published on the YouTube channel of the Security Service of Ukraine. “I want to ask the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to exchange me by the Ukrainian side for the defenders of Mariupol and residents who are there today and do not have the possibility of safe exit through humanitarian corridors,” he said. At the same time, the Rossiya 24 TV channel showed two British citizens taken prisoner in Ukraine – Sean Pinner and Aidan Aslin. During the broadcast, they asked the British authorities, in particular Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to assist in exchanging them for Medvedchuk. The videos were filmed in different rooms. Both British men were approached by a man who showed them on his phone a recording of a video message from Medvedchuk’s wife Oksana Marchenko to Johnson asking him to exchange them for her husband. From Eslin, who was sitting in handcuffs, the man asked: “Do you think this appeal to Boris Johnson will be heard and your government will try to exchange you?” “I think Boris needs to listen to what Oksana said. If Boris Johnson really cares about British citizens as he says he does, then he will help put pressure on [Vladimir] Zelensky to do the right thing and get Victor back to his family and us back to our families,” Eslin said. Ukrainian authorities announced Medvedchuk’s detention on April 12. Zelensky offered to exchange the politician for the Ukrainian military. The Kremlin responded that Medvedchuk is not a Russian citizen and has nothing to do with the military operation in Ukraine. “We don’t know at all whether he himself wants any Russian involvement in resolving this libelous situation against him,” presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Afterwards, Medvedchuk’s wife Oksana Marchenko recorded several video messages – to Putin, saying that her husband had agreed to the exchange, as well as to Zelensky asking him to release her husband and to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urging him to use his influence to resolve the issue. In another appeal, Marchenko suggested exchanging two Britons, Pinner and Eslin, for Medvedchuk. According to Marchenko, she learned from the media that both men acted in the 36th brigade of the AFU Marines and “surrendered” to the Russian and DNR military. She appealed to the relatives of the British prisoners and said that it was in their power “to ask Johnson to influence the Ukrainian leadership and obtain the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them.” The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on Marchenko’s proposal, noted that Johnson, who recently visited Kiev, “is surely aware of the fate of the Royal Majesty’s subjects.” “Won’t hesitate to respond, though. And Liz Truss will tell us what the British were basically doing there,” said Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the department. Medvedchuk is Putin’s cousin. The Russian president is the godfather of the Ukrainian politician’s daughter. In Ukraine, several criminal cases were opened against Medvedchuk, including an article on treason, under which he could face punishment of up to life. Medvedchuk had been under house arrest since May 2021, but in February 2022, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry reported his escape. Medvedchuk’s lawyer, Larisa Cherednichenko, said that the politician had received threats and, due to the “real danger to his life” Medvedchuk had been “evacuated to a safe place in Kiev,” where he “continues to perform the procedural duties assigned to him by the court. Medvedchuk himself called his persecution political repression. On April 16, a court in Lviv arrested Medvedchuk without the possibility of bail. The post Medvedchuk asked Putin and Zelensky to exchange him for the Mariupol fighters appeared first on Russian News.

Four People Injured In an apartment house in Komi, the floor in the bathroom collapsed with the people – four people were injured. The administration blamed the tenants themselves for the accident. In one of the houses in Yemva (town in the Komi Republic) at Kastrychnitskaya Street, 30A, the floor in the bathroom collapsed along with the tenants. Four people were injured – they received bruises, one of the women had serious injuries, she had to go to the hospital on her own. “The floor collapsed with the people! My mother is disabled of the first group, we dragged her into the bathtub to wash, the floor could fall with her,” said one of the victims in social networks. The administration explained to the tenants that they themselves are to blame for what happened – allegedly in the bathroom do not enter the company of more than two people. Also, the workers accused the victims in the fact that they have drilled the floor themselves, and asked the tenants not to appeal to any authorities. However, the victims have already appealed to the local deputies and the prosecutor’s office. The post In an apartment building in Komi, the bathroom floor collapsed with the people appeared first on Russian News.

They could not rely on municipal services Citizens of St. Petersburg are forced to cover up slippery sidewalks themselves, so they don’t end up in overcrowded hospitals with injuries. We talked to the organizers of the action. Residents of Kolomna (a historic district of St. Petersburg) got tired of the inaction of utility workers and decided to save themselves from injuries on sidewalks covered in wet ice. They organized an action “Propesochka”: bought 250 kg of sand (with delivery cost of 2 thousand rubles) and today give it away for free to those wishing that they sprinkle the ice on the sidewalks. “We have a big problem in St. Petersburg. The city is not sprinkled, do not clean the snow. It’s very slippery! Elderly people don’t go out at all because of this. This is not the right thing to do,” Ilya, the organizer of the action, told Readovka. The post Petersburgers are forced to fill in slippery sidewalks themselves to avoid overcrowded hospitals appeared first on Russian News.

They are even being put in the corridors St. Petersburg hospitals are crammed with people injured on wet ice. Even the corridors are jammed with patients. “In the last 24 hours alone, 85 people have been admitted to the traumatology department and 47 people to neurosurgery. That’s the total number of people admitted, not just with injuries from falling on ice. But mostly, of course, because of that. We can say that a huge number of people are being admitted,” the Elizavetinsky hospital (the largest hospital in the city) reported last night. And here’s yesterday’s review of City Hospital #26: “What a nightmare we endured yesterday to get first to the trauma clinic on Moskovsky, 87, from where we were taken by ambulance to the hospital on Kostyushko. All the corridors were crammed with gurneys and wheelchairs. The stuffiness was unimaginable, overcrowded. We stayed in this hell from 14 to 22. At the I.I. Dzhanelidze Ambulance Research Institute. The Fontanka newspaper cites the figure of 50 people admitted with injuries in January 13 alone. This despite the fact that there are only 50 beds in the emergency department of the institution! Today there is video footage showing that even the corridors are jammed with patients. The post Hospitals in St. Petersburg are full of people injured on the wet ice appeared first on Russian News.

Now he faces up to 12 years in prison In the evening of December 15 on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg intoxicated Shuren Tumanov drove on a red light and knocked down two people – 23-year-old Anastasia died on the spot. Spiridon, 26, was also under the wheels – he is now in the hospital with a fractured spine and cranial trauma. The 43-year-old driver was detained. A criminal case was initiated against him under Part 4 of Article 264. He could face 5 to 12 years in prison. The post In the center of St. Petersburg, a drunk driver ran over a girl to death appeared first on Russian News.

More than 600 people recognized as victims The “Kazan shooter” Ilnaz Galyaviev, accused of the mass shooting The charges against the shooter Ilz Gaviev, accused of the mass shooting in Gymnasium 175 in Kazan, was found sane. Nine people were killed in the tragedy, most of whom were children, and another 600 people were recognized as victims. Galyaviev pleaded guilty in full. He was charged with the final version of the charges. The young man faces a reduced sentence. Earlier, the fact that Galyaviev was found sane earlier, his lawyer Vladimir Bogdan reported. Now it is known that he was charged in the final version. We remind that on May 11 Ilnaz Galyaviev opened fire in the school № 175 in Kazan. The 19-year-old detainee had an officially registered gun. The head of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov declared May 12 a day of mourning. The Investigative Committee instituted criminal proceedings according to part 2 of article 105 of the Russian Criminal Code (murder of two or more persons). From the materials of the case it follows that the accused committed 17 shots during the attack. Nine people died, seven of them children. Already then it became known about 23 victims. The Soviet District Court of Kazan arrested the young man for two months. If there are reasons, the criminal case can be reclassified to the article “terrorism. In early July, it became known that Galyaviev’s arrest was extended for two more months. Galyaviev, accused of skulking, told about the motives of his crime. He stated that he went to kill children because of hatred. On October 7 Basmanny court of Moscow extended the arrest of Galyaviev for two more months. He will be kept in the detention center till January 11, 2022. Earlier, the PMC reported that the Center of Social and Forensic Psychiatry named after A.P. Serbsky admitted that the detainee had been shot dead on May 12 as a day of mourning. P. Serbsky Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry declared Galyaviev insane at the time of the mass murders. The press service of the Investigative Committee claimed that the psychiatric examination had not yet been completed. Readovka also conducted an investigation and looked into Who benefited from the Kazan tragedy, and how enterprising ladies found a way to monetize the situation and began making money off of dead and living children who romanticized the criminal. The post Ilnaz Galyaviev was found sane and the charges were finalized appeared first on Russian News.

About a hundred people took part in it The participants of the demonstration against QR codes which gathered about 100 people at Lenin Square in Arkhangelsk, after the end of the action marched in column to the police department where they took the organizer of the action Vladimir Kogut and the activist Sergey Antufiev, who were arrested at the beginning of the meeting. As a reminder, The government of Russian Federation has introduced two bills to the State Duma: the amendments on the use of QR codes in public places and on transport. The first bill amends the Federal Law “On the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of population”. According to it, citizens will be able to visit places of mass events, cultural institutions, public catering facilities and retail trade with the presentation of either a QR code about vaccination or a document confirming that the person has had a coronavirus, or a medical waiver of vaccination. Until February 1, 2022, it will also be possible to submit the results of a negative PCR test. After February 1, only citizens with a medical exemption will be able to do so. Regional authorities will decide on the use of QR codes and the list of facilities where they will be required. Without these documents, citizens will only be able to visit pharmacies and stores with food and essential goods (such as fuel and hygiene products, a full list is available here). The norms of the law will be valid until June 1, 2022. The second bill amends Article 107 of the Air Code and the Federal law “The Charter of railway transport of Russia”. It provides for the introduction of QR codes on the railway and air transport. We are talking about intercity and international carriages. A QR-code on vaccination or a certificate of having had an illness or a medical excuse to have a vaccination will also be necessary for travelling. A negative result of a PCR test will be sufficient until the date specified by the government of the Russian Federation, in the absence of such documentation. The same test will be required for a citizen of a foreign country when receiving rail or air transport services. On November 15, the Duma Council considered the documents and decided to send the initiatives for discussion to the regions, the Public Chamber, the Accounting Chamber and the Federation Council until December 14 inclusive. At the same time the government has offered at first to accept the results of PCR-testing along with QR-code. Prior to February 1, a person will be able to submit a negative PCR-test in case of lack of necessary documentation to visit the specified objects. After February 1, only citizens with medical clearance will have such an opportunity. The decision on the use of QR-codes and the list of objects where they are required will be made by the regional authorities. It will still be unnecessary to show anything when visiting pharmacies, organizations providing the population with food and essential commodities. The norms of the law will be valid until June 1, 2022. The post Opponents of QR codes held a procession appeared first on Russian News.

It took a long time to get to the emergency room. He got sick during a game in Samara. They tried to give him first aid, but they had to wait a long time for resuscitation. A soccer fan felt bad 10 minutes before the end of the game. The man was resuscitated before and after the game, but the fan died of a heart attack on the stand. According to local media, the 50-year-old spectator became ill at the end of the second half. Doctors tried to pump the fan out with heart massage, but in vain. According to the fans, the intensive care unit did not arrive in time, so the man could not be saved. “There’s still no resuscitation, although there is one at the stadium. You know, those who saw it all, they didn’t care about Sergei’s winning goal, they didn’t care about the victory cheers. The match was going on, and the doctors were massaging the heart with their hands right in the stands. After the match no one cares either. That’s how it is. Go to the stadium,” eyewitnesses wrote. The club along with the league said they would take control of the investigation of the incident. Recall, December 11, there was a match between Krylya Sovetov and Rubin. Meeting of the 18th round of the Russian Premier League season 2021/2022 took place at the stadium “Solidarity Arena” in Samara. The meeting ended with a 2-0 win for the hosts. The post A fan died at Samara stadium during a match between Krylia and Rubin appeared first on Russian News.

He was thrown by the blast wave several meters away This morning in Yakutsk firefighters arrived at a call on Dzerzhinskogo Street, where a private garage was on fire. One of the firefighters tried to open the door, but there was an explosion – it turned out that the garage was storing gasoline. The brave rescuer was filmed by an eyewitness of the incident. The footage shows the firefighter being thrown back several meters by the blast wave. The man miraculously survived, according to colleagues, did not even get any injuries. MES employees modestly remarked that such cases are not uncommon for them, but “the firefighters’ combat clothes are designed for such loads. The post A brave firefighter miraculously survived the explosion appeared first on Russian News.

Rosprirodnadzor investigates the causes of the accident The Black Sea has been polluted again: Gelendzhik residents have complained about the rainbow film in the area of Vinsovkhoz. The water overflows with all the colors of the rainbow, and in the air there is a smell of diesel fuel. Yesterday a dead dolphin was found not far from there – whether its death is connected with an oil spill is still unknown. Rosprirodnadzor is already investigating the causes of the accident. The post An oil slick of 1 thousand square meters was found on the coast of Gelendzhik appeared first on Russian News.

An employee suspected of the theft has been put on the wanted list An employee of the local branch of Alfa Bank in Krasnoyarsk stole 22.5 million rubles and was put on the wanted list. The local department of the Interior Ministry showed footage of the theft. “Earlier, the duty unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Achinskiy” received a message from the head of the credit-cash office of the financial organization that an unidentified person committed the theft of 15 million rubles, 49 thousand 500 dollars and 49 thousand 200 euros, belonging to the institution. The police have found that the cashier of credit-cash office, born in 1991, was involved in the crime. The same day her mother reported that her daughter was missing. Currently, the whereabouts of the suspect is established,” – explained in the press service of the agency. The missing money was noticed on December 7. The same day, the mother of the cashier went to the police about her daughter’s disappearance. Relatives of Anna Grigorieva, who was the cashier of “Alfa Bank,” helped the media to reconstruct the chronology of events. The story began on December 3, when the woman returned home from work. According to her husband, Grigorieva said nothing about the money that evening. On Sunday, December 5, the woman was at home alone. She sent a text message to her husband, saying that “she would be fine” and tried to commit suicide. Her husband and nephew called an ambulance, which hospitalized the woman. At the hospital they managed to save her. The next day Grigorieva demanded to take her out of the hospital under the threat of another suicide attempt. Her husband complied, after which the woman slept all day. At night they watched a movie, after which Grigorieva left home. No one has seen her since. The post Footage of the theft of 22.5 million rubles from a bank appeared first on Russian News.

At the moment of the accident there were 285 people inside the mine On November 25, at 8:51 am (4:51 Moscow time, later in this text the Moscow time) of Kemerovo time there was an explosion and smoke in a mine “Listvyazhnaya” at a depth of 250 meters. At that time, 285 miners were underground. How it all began During the first hours, 236 people were evacuated. Then, they managed to extract the body of the first casualty from the ground. It turned out to be a 23-year-old worker. According to the local media, his name was Anatoli Bedarev. By 12:30 Moscow time three more people had been brought to the surface and 10 dead bodies had been found. “At 08:51 at the Listvyazhnaya mine in the village of Gramoteino, Belovsky urban district, at a depth of 250 meters there was smoke. There were 285 miners in the mine. As many as 239 people were brought to the surface. As of 16:00 (12:00 Moscow time), 46 people were still in the mine. Ten of them died. Forty-three of the wounded are in hospitals. Four of them are in a serious condition, 39 are of light and moderate severity,” said the governor of Kemerovo region. Governor of the Kemerovo region Sergey Tsivilev. By 1 pm, the search and rescue operation had to be suspended due to high gas concentrations. At that moment there were 36 miners underground. At that time, the acting head of Emergencies Ministry Alexander Chupriyan and Deputy Minister of Health Oleg Gridnev were sent to Kemerovo region. What is known about the mine The conditions in the mine after the accident were not easy. One of the workers said that they had to go to the surface because of the darkness. There have been accidents at the mine at different times. In 1981 a methane explosion killed 5 people, in 2004, 13 miners died of the same causes. Just a few days before the current tragedy there was a fire in the mine. The miners extinguished the fire with their own resources, said the widow of one of the dead miners. As another miner told Another miner, there were problems with ventilation at Listvyazhnaya and absolutely everyone knew about the “high methane content. At the same time, Rostechnadzor last checked the mine a few hours before the accident. No violations were found. In April 2021 a similar inspection revealed violations related to fire safety. In particular, the mine lacked sensors capable of detecting early signs of fire, and the fire shield was not fully manned. At the same time, some employees of the mine believed that the problems were caused by their own personnel and that the management had nothing to do with it. Protecting the tops was suddenly a certain Ivan, who worked at Listvyazhnaya from 2019 to 2020. “Safety is top-notch there, and what happened must have been most of the responsibility lies with the working staff. There were cases when the methane level was exceeded. In this case we always informed the dispatcher. The management had nothing to do with it. Of course, there were problems with ventilation, but they were not such global violations. There are no complaints against the supervisors. Anything can happen in a mine. Methane can blow out. Boom, that’s all,” the miner told the “Moscow Talk” radio station. However, it was hard to believe it, so they conducted their own investigation and found that the mine continued to operate with numerous violations, thanks to connections with the authorities of Kuzbass. In short, the inspection authorities repeatedly found serious violations at the Listvyazhnaya mine. For example, in April 2021 Rostekhnadzor identified 139 violations. Among them were the lack of sensors to detect early signs of fire, problems with ventilation, not fully staffed fire shield, and the alarm system was even faulty. Rostekhnadzor also conducted an inspection in February 2020 and found 18 violations. The agency found problems with the availability of firefighting equipment, and the sensors that record methane levels were only triggered when the norm was twice as high. A year earlier, Rostekhnadzor found a record number of violations – 415. Among the violations there were problems of ventilation, fire safety, and so on. It is noteworthy that on the eve of the tragedy Rostechnadzor conducted an unscheduled inspection of the mine, but no violations were discovered. Despite such flagrant violations of fire and industrial safety, the mine always continued operating, and the sanctions from the inspection bodies were limited to fines of 25 thousand rubles. This is easily explained by the fact that the Listvyazhnaya mine belongs to SDS-UGOL JSC (SDS – Siberian Business Union). However, the campaign’s huge debt of $1.5 billion remains a serious problem. This explains why the company was unable to provide a normal level of safety at the mine – after all, it is possible to save money on workers, especially with such a “roof” on top. By the way, the company still has one more mine, Yuzhnaya, where a similar accident could happen at any second. However, it was hard to believe it, so they conducted their own investigation and found that the mine continued to operate with numerous violations, thanks to connections with the authorities of Kuzbass. No one waited any longer. In the evening, six rescuers went in search of the miners. Later, everyone was officially informed about their deaths. A total of 52 people died as a result of the tragedy, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations on the evening of November 25. In the morning of November 26, the agency published a list of the killed rescuers and expressed condolences to the families of the dead heroes. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on awarding them posthumously with the Orders of Courage. However, one of the heroes was still “buried” in haste. A real miracle happened: 51 year-old rescuer, Assistant Platoon Commander Alexander Zakoryashin was found alive. Or rather, he came out on his own, having spent the whole night in the mine. An interesting detail is the fact that the night before, when gone into the mine rescuers to see alive no one expected to, it was decided to mine workings in the mine “Listvyazhnaya” to isolate, wait until they are filled with methane and return to the search operations in three days. This was officially announced to the press by the Governor of the Kemerovo Region, Sergei Tsivilev. He says it is necessary in order to ensure that the concentration of gas has reached a safe level and to allow further rescue work. By that time, three squads of mine rescuers had already arrived at the site and were ready to go into the mine. “The plan of action is determined as follows: these three squads will do the isolation of the mine workings, once the isolation is completed, the natural methane filling of 257,000 cubic meters will begin, so that the methane level reaches over 20%, when the risk of explosion is reduced,” the governor said. And he added that “most likely, we will not find anyone else alive in the Listvyazhnaya mine. And he was wrong. A three-day mourning period was declared in the Kemerovo region. The post Tragedy and Miracle: We Tell the Story of the Listvyazhnaya Mine Explosion from the Start appeared first on Russian News.

The reasons for the conflict have not yet been determined. In the village of Zarechnoye near Simferopol “VAZ” rammed the car Skoda. As a result of the accident no one was injured, but there was a verbal altercation between the drivers and passengers. The conflict eventually turned into a mass brawl of drivers and passengers. The police are already investigating the reasons for the fight. The post The car accident turned into a mass fight appeared first on Russian News.

Gathered information about the cyclone that wrapped the country in precipitation The Genoese cyclone Benedict came to Russia. Since the morning in Moscow – floods and puddles, a drop in pressure and unprecedentedly high temperatures for November. And in St. Petersburg the staff can’t cope with snowdrifts and ice – as the locals joke, the city is gradually turning into an ice rink. The other cities are also (not) coping with the cyclone. Cyclone Benedict, which is 1,700 kilometers in diameter on Tuesday, Nov. 30. Its center for a long time was on the border of Moscow and Tver regions. It moved from west to east. It is characterized by extremely low atmospheric pressure – about 718 mm Hg, instead of the usual 748. The cyclone will bring snow instead of rain to the central regions of Russia. Moscow On the last autumn day, November 30, the weather in Moscow broke two multi-year records at once. By 7:00 am the temperature rose to +7.5 degrees and atmospheric pressure fell to 712.5 millimeters of the mercury column. Prior to that the highest temperature was recorded in 1974 – then it got warmer up to +5.8 degrees. The lowest pressure was fixed on November 30, 1988 – 718.2 millimeters of mercury, told “Meteonovosti. “This will be the heaviest rainfall of the day in the last 69 years. The record of the day so far belongs to 1952 (25.4 millimeters). The daily precipitation record for all of November is 41 millimeters,” said Yevgeny Tishkovets of the Phobos weather center (quoted by RIA Novosti ). The meteorologist said that Muscovites owe such weather to Cyclone Benedict from Genoa, which will bring down to 40% of the monthly norm of precipitation – two buckets of water per square meter. Also, the capital’s major parks and the Moscow Zoo are temporarily closed to visitors. Thus, the “Benedict” belligerent with the capital is known: Up to 23 millimeters of precipitation will fall – 40% of the monthly norm. That’s two buckets of water per square meter (a record for the last 69 years) On the night of November 30, the night temperature record was also recorded in the capital – plus 4.6 degrees. The record of 15 years ago will fall: in 2006 it was +4,4. It’s going to get cold after 17 o’clock. During the first winter night frosts will fall to minus 6 degrees, all this moisture will start to freeze and the roads will be covered not just with ice, but with a real ice rink. At the same time the snowfalls will continue, and on the first day of winter the ground will be covered with 5 centimeters of snow. Overnight floods, collapses and danger level “yellow” Overnight, up to 16 mm of precipitation fell in parts of the capital, more than a quarter of the monthly norm, and by 6:00 a.m. it had increased to 58 mm. In addition, during the day the wind gusts in the capital was 18-23 m / s, and the snow cover has grown to two cm. The main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Moscow has issued a warning in connection with the danger that the weather can carry for the guests and residents of the capital. According to the message, strong southwest winds with gusts of 20-25 m / s are expected in Moscow until 21 hours on November 30. Locals were reminded of safety rules in bad weather: don’t take shelter under trees and don’t park cars near them. Drivers need to strictly obey the speed limit and distance. declared a “yellow” level of danger. It will last in Moscow and Moscow suburbs until Wednesday evening, December 1. Meanwhile, the wind in Moscow was so strong that the scaffolding was hanging over the roadway on Zubovskaya Street. A shallow river appeared on Okruzhnaya MCD, where citizens had to walk. In Vostochnoi-Butovo, the shopping tents are being blown to pieces. The Northern Capital – St. Petersburg In St. Petersburg utility workers were not ready for such a cyclone, despite repeated warnings from weather forecasters. In the morning of November 30 pedestrian areas were blocked with snow, and special equipment did not come out to clean. Because of this Petersburgers could hardly get to work. According to the citizens, the worst situation is in the Nevsky and Central districts, reported “Nevskie Novosti”. Natural phenomenon undermined the health of some citizens – already at 9:00 am in the Institute of Emergency Care named after Janelidze reported about 32 people injured because of the unpreparedness of the city for the snowfall. At the same time, “City of Regions” noted that the local authorities have declared about 1700 units of equipment to clear the city streets. Overnight, the city received a third of the monthly norm of precipitation. Problems are also observed with the wipers. Earlier in the city launched the experiment on “janitor-sherring”: volunteers who volunteered to clean snow during heavy snowfalls to help utility companies, can get for an hour of cleaning 150 rubles, or about a thousand rubles a day. However, during the first serious snowfall, the initiative apparently failed. Smolensk The “Benedict” has become a real test for Smolensk residents: neither heavy trucks, nor streetcars are able to overcome the snow-covered slopes going to Zadneprovsky district. “The trucks are stuck and can’t leave the city because of the glaze, the streetcar traffic is blocked, the traffic jam is blocked on the way out towards Frunze, it’s impossible to drive here. Traffic jam on Kolkhoznaya Square”. There’s no way to make out the streetcar tracks on the video, under the layer of slush. According to the van drivers, they have been standing on the roadway for about two hours. Earlier, the city administration reported that the streets are cleaned by 50 cleaning equipment SpetsAvto, but so far the municipal workers have failed to beat the cyclone. Tula region. Tula is also struggling with the cyclone and is experiencing wind gusts of up to 20 m/s. A yellow danger level is in effect in the region due to strong winds and rain. Wind speeds of up to 17-22 m/sec in the Central District. Gusts can reach 25 meters per second. In the morning, “First Tulsky” reported on the consequences of bad weather in the past 24 hours. So, during the night a lot of calls from different areas of the city were received in the emergency call center. Tulia residents reported torn wires and blackouts. The city administration also informed that there were four emergency shutdowns in central heating during the day, and two emergency shutdowns in electricity supply. There were no emergency shutdowns of heat and hot water supply, cold water supply and sewage, gas supply, as well as street lighting. A total of 960 appeals from Tula residents were received by the emergency call center last night. Rescue service responded to the calls eight times. In addition, rescuers warned that the yellow level of danger is declared in the region until 21.00. Uneven coming winter Central Russia is expecting a big storm on November 30: a cold frontal divide from Europe breaks through from the west, so the North Atlantic air will collide with the southern air. Wind gusts will reach 25 meters per second in some places. Apart from the wind, forecasters also predict a cold snap and heavy precipitation everywhere, told “Meteonovosti. The exception will be the Far North and Western Black Earth regions. The Crimea will be stormy until the second half of the week. The wind will weaken briefly in the middle of the day in Yalta, but in the evening will again increase to 22 meters per second. The weather will last until the evening of December 1. According to chief scientist of the weather center Roman Wilfand, Russia will have a “mixed” winter with frosts to -20 degrees and thaws. Central regions of the country will be more often visited by air masses from the south, which will lead to a warming. The post “Benedict” is tearing down rooftops in central Russia appeared first on Russian News.

The crew did not request evacuation. A large vessel was washed ashore in the port of Kholmsk on Sakhalin Island. Rescuers went to the scene of the accident, according to the Telegram channel of the Sakhalin regional government. “A task force of the Ministry of Emergency Situations has left for the scene of the accident, in the seaport of the Kholmsk district,” the message reads. There are 12 people on the dry cargo ship Xin Yuan – all citizens of the People’s Republic of China. The crew did not request evacuation. Due to the storm, it was washed ashore when unmooring. “The vessel is in ballast, no cargo on it. The dry cargo ship was not damaged, so there is no fuel leakage, the crew was not injured,” the rescue center told TASS. The mayor’s office of the Kholmsk district added that the vessel will be taken off the shoal when the weather starts to improve. The part of the port, where the dry cargo ship is located, is fenced off. There have been no reports of fuel leaks or casualties. There is no precipitation in Kholmsk region now, wind speed on land is about 13 meters per second. In the sea the wind is stronger, it is stormy. The post Chinese dry cargo vessel washed ashore on Sakhalin appeared first on Russian News.

They confiscated 353 firearms The Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested 85 clandestine gunsmiths who seized 353 firearms. The operation was carried out in 30 regions of Russia, including Moscow, Udmurtia, Smolensk, Belgorod and Samara regions. “The Federal Security Service, in cooperation with the Russian Interior Ministry and Rosgvardia, suppressed the criminal activity of 85 residents involved in the restoration of the combat properties of civilian weapons in underground workshops and their sale <….> 353 units of firearms of domestic and foreign production were withdrawn from illegal circulation,” the report says. In particular, we are talking about 6 machine guns, 32 assault rifles and 104 carbines. Anti-land mines, gunpowder, TNT and more than 11 thousand cartridges were also withdrawn. The post The Federal Security Service detained 85 illegal gunsmiths in 30 regions of Russia appeared first on Russian News.

A criminal case has been opened. In Irkutsk after the explosion in the elevator a criminal case was opened under the article “Attempted murder”. The suspect in the case is a 50-year-old man, according to the press service of the local Investigative Committee. “On the afternoon of November 30, while lifting the elevator in an apartment building located on Marshala Koneva Street in Irkutsk, there was a clap. As a result of the incident, a 30-year-old man who was in the elevator cabin received various injuries and was taken to the hospital,” the report said. Specialists who arrived at the scene found out that there was an explosion of an improvised device in the cabin. Investigators opened a criminal case under the article “Attempted murder by commonly dangerous means. A 50-year-old neighbor of the victim was detained on suspicion of organizing the explosion. The reason for the attempt is called “personal animosity. According to some reports, the victim was very noisy when making repairs at home. The suspect was annoyed and decided to get rid of the source of noise by an extremely radical method. The post In Irkutsk, a man blew up a noisy neighbor in an elevator appeared first on Russian News.

Main news of the day November 16, at the border between Belarus and Poland, migrants started to break the barriers on the neutral zone and to throw stones at the Polish military. The Polish military responded with tear gas, reports Belarusian news agency Sputnik Belarus. Last night a group of about a hundred migrants attempted to cross the border with Poland near Dubicze. It became known thanks to the message of the Polish Border Guard in its Twitter. In total, according to the Polish authorities, over the last day there have been 224 attempts to cross the border illegally and 29 people have already been ordered to be deported from Poland. In addition, citizens of Poland, Tajikistan and Ukraine, who tried to smuggle 10 migrants by car across the border, were detained in the Podlaskie province. In the afternoon, the Belarusian media reported that the migrants were leaving the checkpoint and going to the place of the old camp. After the incident with a policeman being seriously wounded, Polish border guards stated that they would not hesitate to use weapons if necessary. Toward evening, groups of migrants at the “Bruzgi” border crossing between Belarus and Poland moved in the direction of the old camp. The bulk of the migrants, numbering over 2,000, remained at the border crossing itself. European countries continue their rhetoric against Belarus, saying they will impose additional sanctions. In particular, the Norwegian authorities announced it today. “Norway will support sanctions against Belarus,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt told TASS. – “We do not want this [migrant] movement to continue. It endangers many lives, it’s a cynical use of ordinary people who pay because they are looking for a better life.” Thus, this will be the fifth package of the European Union sanctions against the authorities of Belarus. It will be agreed and put into effect in the coming days, said Josep Borrell, head of the EU External Action Service, following the meeting. Polish authorities believe that Belarus is to blame for the destruction of the fence on the border between the two countries. Poles also expressed concern that the Belarusian authorities might arm migrants to attack border guards, while President Alexander Lukashenko said there’s evidence of attempts to pass weapons to the refugees on the border with Poland. Warsaw is close to considering an offer of help from NATO countries on the border with refugees. At a briefing, Polish government spokesman Piotr Müller said he oddly expects the migration crisis on the border to continue for several months. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry reported that 170 citizens of the country who want to return from the Polish-Belarusian border. This was reported by RT. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that “it is necessary to speak with the person (Alexander Lukashenko), who is responsible for what is happening on the border,” to resolve the migration crisis there. Yesterday the head of Lithuania stated about Russia’s participation in this situation, and his words were denied by Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, at the press conference on November 16th. Recall that in summer the flow of refugees from the Middle East and Africa trying to get to Western Europe increased on the borders of Belarus with Poland and the Baltic States. The situation exacerbated in early November, when about two thousand people gathered at the barbed wire. The Polish security forces stopped several attempts to break through, including with the use of tear gas, and the illegals set up a spontaneous camp. The situation escalated sharply on November 8, when about 2 thousand migrants in a crowd came to the Belarusian-Polish border near the checkpoint “Bruzgi”. Some of them were able to break the barbed wire border and enter the territory of the European Union. A number of media outlets reported that Belarusian security officers with dogs, preventing a column of migrants from reaching the checkpoint, directed Kurds into the woods on the border with Poland. In some cases migrants tried to “open” the fence by force. To do this they used wire cutters and logs. Poland urgently sent a detachment of border guards to the site. The country’s military minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, announced that the army was on high alert. In the morning of November 10, it became known that two groups of migrants had broken through into Polish territory. The next day, on November 11, it became known that Aeroflot could fall under EU sanctions because of the situation in Belarus. The post What happened at the Belarusian-Polish border on November 16 appeared first on Russian News.