The U.S. is discussing a $100B deal with Ukraine allowing Kyiv to buy American weapons in exchange for U.S. rights to Ukraine’s advanced military tech.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that thousands of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under post-war security guarantees, but Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Moscow would regard them as legitimate targets to attack.
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[Korrespondent] In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have attempted to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 38 times.
Since the beginning of the day, 122 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of September 5.
It is noted that today Russian troops carried out two missile and 54 air strikes, using six missiles and dropping 79 guided air bombs. In addition, they deployed 1,970 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,565 shellings of Ukrainian troop positions and populated areas.
According to the General Staff, Ukrainian soldiers are repelling five assault actions by the occupiers in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions. In addition, the enemy launched 11 air strikes, dropping 29 guided bombs, and also carried out 169 shellings of our troops' positions and populated areas, including four from multiple launch rocket systems.
In the South Slobodskoy direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units near Vovchansk five times.
In the Kupyansk direction, the aggressor carried out offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Petrovpavlovka and Kolesnikovka. Ukrainian defenders stopped six enemy attacks, one combat clash is still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, Russian invaders attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 15 times near the settlements of Andreyevka, Druzhelyubovka, Kolodyagi, Drobyshevo and in the direction of Olgovka and Shandrigolovoe. The fighting does not subside in two locations.
Twelve assault actions by enemy troops were repelled by Ukrainian defenders in the Seversky direction - the occupiers tried to advance near Grigoryevka, Serebryanka, Dronovka, Fedorovka, Vyemka and in the direction of Dibrova.
Our defenders repelled two enemy attacks in the Stupochki area in the Kramatorsk direction.
In the Toretsk direction, the Russians launched 11 offensives against Ukrainian units in the areas of Pleshchyivka, Rusiny Yar and Poltavka. The defense forces stopped all enemy attacks.
In the Pokrovsk direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 38 times. The enemy attacked in the areas of the settlements of Shakhovo, Nikanorovka, Rodinskoye, Novoekonomicheskoye, Mayak, Rubezhnoye, Sukhoi Yar, Shevchenko, Promen, Pokrovsk, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Dachnoye and in the direction of Filiya and Novopavlovka. Four combat clashes are still ongoing.
According to preliminary data, 132 occupiers were neutralized in this direction today, 80 of them irrevocably. Ukrainian soldiers also destroyed nine cars, 19 unmanned aerial vehicles, four units of special equipment; one control point for unmanned aerial vehicles and two enemy guns were damaged.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense of our defenders 22 times in the areas of the settlements of Zelenyi Gai, Filiya, Poddubnoye, Aleksandrovgrad, Voskresenka, Temirovka, Shevchenko, Maliyevka, Komyshuvakha. The fighting continues in four locations.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Gulyai-Polye direction.
In the Orekhov direction, the Defense Forces repelled one attack by the invaders towards Stepnogorsk. The enemy launched an air strike on the settlement of Novoadrievka.
In the Dnieper direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled three attacks by the occupiers. Lviv was hit by unguided air missiles.
In other directions - without any significant changes.
The General Staff noted the soldiers of the 78th separate airborne assault regiment, the 114th separate territorial defense brigade, the 116th and 153rd separate mechanized brigades, who effectively destroy the enemy, inflicting significant losses in manpower and equipment.
Let us recall that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces eliminated 810 occupiers. Two tanks, two armored vehicles, an air defense system, 50 artillery systems and 222 UAVs were destroyed.
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[Korrespondent] Almost half of the Russian attacks are concentrated in the Novopavlovsk direction and near Pokrovsk.
Since the beginning of this day, 103 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Ukrainian troops have successes in Sumy region and in the Kupyansk area in Kharkiv region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report on Friday, September 5.
Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoye (Sumy region – ed.) and Kursk directions, four military clashes occurred, two of which are ongoing.
"At the same time, Ukrainian units carried out active operations and achieved success in certain areas," the statement said.
One attack by Russian troops has been repelled in the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction. Another military clash is still ongoing. The enemy is trying to advance in the Vovchansk area.
In the Kupyansk direction, Russian occupiers tried unsuccessfully to break through our defenses six times in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Radkovka, Petrovpavlovka and Kolesnikovka. In turn, Ukrainian units carried out active actions and had success in certain areas.
In the Liman direction, the invaders carried out 12 attacks near the settlements of Andreyevka, Druzhelyubovka, Kolodezi, Drobyshevo and in the direction of Olgovka and Shandrigolovoe. Four combat clashes continue.
Three attacks have been stopped in the Seversky direction, four more combat clashes are ongoing. The enemy is trying to advance near Grigoryevka, Serebryanka, Dronovka and in the direction of Dibrova.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out five assaults in the areas of Pleshchievka, Rusiny Yar and Poltavka. One battle is still ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian invaders carried out 26 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Shakhovo, Nikanorovka, Rodinskoye, Novoekonomicheskoye, Shevchenko, Promen, Pokrovsk, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Dachnoye and in the direction of Filiya and Novopavlovka. The defense forces have already repelled 19 enemy attacks.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense in the areas of the settlements of Aleksandrovgrad, Voskresenka, Temirovka, Shevchenko, Maliyevka, Komyshuvakha. Our soldiers repelled 15 enemy assaults, six more attacks are ongoing.
In the Orekhov direction, one attack by the invaders towards Stepnogorsk was stopped.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Dnieper, Kramatorsk and Gulyai-Polye directions.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on September 4, the Ukrainian Armed Forces "minus" more than 800 Russians. Russia's total losses since the beginning of the war will soon exceed 1.1 million people killed and wounded.
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[NewsFront] 21:41 In Dnepropetrovsk, they were unable to extinguish the fire at the former combine plant, which had been previously hit by Gerani, by nightfall,video. 20:36 Published footage of UAV operators from the 1st Tank Army of the Russian Armed Forces at work.
19:58 Military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit Energodar. No less than six artillery strikes were carried out on the main city of power engineers in the Zaporizhzhya region. In addition to the coastline, landings were recorded in the immediate vicinity of residential buildings.
19:20 Around 18:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
18:40 Elderly man and woman died as a result of a UAV strike on a car in the Aleshkinsky District. In addition, five people were injured in Aleshki due to shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one day, including a 13-year-old teenager.
17:36 Enemy drone attacked civilian car in the village of Korenevo, Korenevsky District. The 50-year-old driver was injured in the attack. He has a shrapnel wound to his right arm and chest. He received medical assistance at the scene.
16:50 FPV crews of the 68th Motorized Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces transport in the Khar'kov region, –video.
16:12 Black Sea Fleet aviation destroyed the BEK, –video.
15:39 Paratroopers of the Ulyanovsk Airborne Forces unit shot down hexacopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction
The drone was destroyed by paratroopers from the Ulyanovsk Airborne Forces unit, who destroyed more than 20 Ukrainian Armed Forces UAVs in a month, including heavy hexacopters, reconnaissance and FPV drones.
14:20 Calculations of counteraction of UAVs using the network of forced planted four Maviks and one Baba Yaga of the enemy in the Khar'kov direction.
14:00 Artillerymen of the "East" group of forces, having applied high-precision munitions "Krasnopol" destroyed enemy deployment points in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
13:10 05.09.2025, 01:40–02:00 by units of the RF Armed Forces inflicted a massive strike on the facility of the State Enterprise "Salut Plant" in Dnepropetrovsk. About 15 Geran-2 strike UAVs were used in the attack, which ensured the guaranteed destruction of the facility and large-scale destruction of its functional capacities.
12:45 From August 30 to September 5, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a massive and four group strikes with high-precision weapons and strike unmanned aerial vehicles, which resulted in the destruction of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, fuel, transport and port infrastructure facilities used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, military airfields, production workshops and storage sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, arsenals, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations, nationalists and foreign mercenaries.
In addition, a HIMARS multiple launch rocket system launcher and a US-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile launcher were destroyed.
12:22 As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "Southern" group of troops released settlement of Markovo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:10 In the period from 8.00 to 10.00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
10:37 Over the past 24 hours, UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked. Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded in the Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk regions.
In the village of Bezymeno in the Belgorod region, an FPV drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the territory of a private home. A man who was on the street at the time of the attack died on the spot from his injuries.
In the village of Glotovo, Graivoronsky District, Belgorod Region, a woman was injured by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone strike. The victim suffered a mine blast injury, barotrauma, and multiple shrapnel wounds to her leg.
The Oktyabrsky settlement in the Belgorod district was attacked by enemy drones. As a result of the strike on a private house, a woman was injured. With shrapnel wounds to the chest, an ambulance team takes her to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces deliberately attacked a regular bus on the road between the village of Solovyovka and Kamensky Khutor in the Klimovsky District of the Bryansk Region with FPV drones. As a result of the barbaric actions of the Kyiv regime, the driver was wounded.
Between the village of Obesta and the village of Lokot in the Rylsky district of the Kursk region, a Ukrainian drone struck, wounding a 58-year-old civilian. He was taken to the Kursk regional hospital in a moderate condition.
In the Bryansk region, as a result of a targeted attack on the territory of the Miratorg agricultural holding, an employee of the enterprise was injured. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she received all the necessary medical care.
9:30 Crew of the modernized TOS-1A "Solntsepek" of the "Center" group of forces destroyed enemy UAV control point in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
9:05 Crews of attack UAVs of the 56th Separate Special Purpose Battalion of the 51st Guards Army of the Southern Military District destroyed an enemy self-propelled gun Archer of Swedish manufacture in the area of the settlement of Novoaleksandrovka in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
8:30 During the past night, air defense systems on dutyinterceptedand 92 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed:
– 15 UAVs over the territory of the Bryansk region,
– 13 UAVs over the territory of the Rostov region,
– 12 UAVs over the territory of the Tula region,
– 11 UAVs over the territory of the Kaluga region,
– Nine UAVs over the territory of the Ryazan region,
– Eight UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
– Seven UAVs over the territory of the Voronezh region,
– Five UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,
– Five UAVs over the territory of the Oryol region,
– Two UAVs over the territory of the Lipetsk region,
– Two UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– One UAV over the territory of the Smolensk region,
– One UAV over the waters of the Black Sea,
– One UAV over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
8:08 Russian missilemen produced several strikes on military targets in Dnepropetrovsk and the region.
8:03 Crews of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket systems of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the West Forces Group destroyed temporary accommodation points for personnel and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
by Denis Davydov and Andrey Khrustalev
The problem of fugitives who daily rush across the Ukrainian border to breathe in the air of freedom has been taken up with a radical solution.
In early September, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine appointed police colonel Sergei Naumenko as one of his deputies. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave a purely positive review of him:
"His aerial reconnaissance team, formed in the first days of the full-scale war, helped to detect the enemy on the approaches to Kyiv in time and contributed to the successful defense of the capital. Despite being wounded during an artillery barrage in Rubizhne, Sergei Naumenko continued to carry out his missions. He participated in battles in Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Izyum, Balakleya, Kupyansk, Ugledar, Maryinka and Bakhmut."
Now this interesting man will be primarily responsible for strengthening the state border and creating UAV units in all structures related to the ministry's sphere of activity, i.e. the State Border Service, the State Emergency Service and the National Guard of Ukraine. He will "improve the legislation on application."
According to statements by some bloggers with connections to the State Border Service of Ukraine, with its appearance, border guards and other security forces will now be allowed to use, among other things, attack FPV drones against resisting border violators.
Since there are no funds for the construction of continuous barrier lines, and the current work of border guards involves constant running around with shooting.
The chronicles of illegal crossing of the state border are full of vivid episodes.
On September 2, the Southern Regional Directorate of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine reported that a Ukrainian man was killed near the Moldovan-Ukrainian border while trying to illegally leave the country with his friend. The men allegedly did not respond to warning shots, but tried to overcome the engineering barriers anyway.
Then the border guards opened fire to kill, killing a 23-year-old resident of the Kharkiv region. Although, most likely, they started shooting immediately when they spotted from a drone that the guys were already climbing through the "barbed wire" - they rushed in and immediately opened fire.
Drones, including those with thermal imaging, have been used since 2022 to search for "sneakers" wandering toward the border, but flying over large areas is a labor-intensive task. The 9th border detachment, based in the Rivne region, showed visiting television crews that the operator mainly works directly on the most important section - flies along the fence.
Cameras are installed on the approaches. Thus, in the spring, using a drone and a camera trap, border guards detained residents of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia regions, born in 1981 and 1994, who were trying to get to Romania through the mountains. And in early September, in Bukovina, a border patrol, using a drone, discovered two men who were trying to get to Moldova at night, making their way through a field.
There are other ways.
"The border is heavily guarded, its engineering and fortification arrangements are constantly being carried out. These include minefields, non-explosive barriers, and full video surveillance of the entire state border line," the head of the detachment's press service, Yuriy Shakhraychuk, explains to journalists.
But so far only the border with neighboring Belarus has been mined - and local residents claim that those trying to escape in the northern direction are periodically blown up there. And in the summer, large-scale mining of the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in the Zhitomir region was carried out.
Ukrainian security forces have not yet decided to lay minefields on the border with their “European brothers.” But this is the most problematic area. According to Romanian border guards and police, 5,400 Ukrainians illegally crossed the Romanian-Ukrainian border in the first seven months of 2025, while the figure for the same period last year was 7,680.
Drone captures border guards 'twisting' fugitives on Moldovan border
And since the fugitives have been sitting in their concentration camp until they are in complete despair, they are increasingly putting up armed resistance. Last June, at the Chernivtsi border detachment, two men with a gas canister and a machete attacked a border guard. He used his service weapon and shot one of the attackers. And in August, in Zakarpattia, his colleague did not have time: three men attacked the border guard, took his weapon and fled to Romania.
One was detained by Ukrainian security forces, and the other two were captured by Romanian border guards.
In May, MP Yulia Yatsyk, citing data from the State Border Service of Ukraine (SBSU), stated that from February 24, 2022 to May 2025, about 50 thousand citizens illegally left Ukraine by various means and security forces managed to detain another 30 thousand.
The real figures are several times higher, but even the government's statistics show that a huge number of people are ready to leave the country. So one can imagine what kind of effort it takes to drive personnel around the mountains, forests and fields for days, trying to prevent unpatriotic citizens from leaving.
Or here's an example: on June 19, 2024, more than 30 Ukrainians managed to break through the Hungarian border with the help of a truck - the car broke through the engineering barriers like a battering ram. The fugitives were detained by Hungarian security forces, but that's not important: "there is no extradition from the Don."
All too often, such lucky ones are shot at across the border. And the news that FPVs are now “working” there, complementing the reconnaissance drone, will scare off new ones who want to flee. And there is no doubt that the new deputy minister will have enough determination to do so.
As in the fact that the army called upon to create an impenetrable barrier on the side opposite the fighting is no smaller than the one at the front.
The total number of the State Border Service of Ukraine is about 60 thousand people. However, in April 2024, the Verkhovna Rada allowed to increase it by another 15 thousand. And 67 thousand of this army are military personnel.
Let's add here the National Guard units - from the 2nd separate Galician brigade with branches in Lviv, Ternopil and Rivne to separate battalions and UAV units. They are located practically along the entire border line - in the western region, in Volyn, Kyiv region, Chernihiv and Odessa region, where Izmail, Bolgrad and Belgorod-Dnistrovsky have a battalion each.
In total, the NGU, together with combat brigades located at the front, has about 90 thousand people. But the bulk is in the rear.
Their task is to close the nearest approaches together with the police. And there are enough "policemen" in Ukraine to form as many as 35 mechanized army brigades or 10 separate assault brigades. As of March 2025, the maximum number of National Police employees is set at 141,330 people, but in fact there are about 109 thousand.
And their main job is, together with the TCC, to catch reinforcements for the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the streets.
Due to the total raids on the streets and in public places, it is almost impossible to meet men of draft age there. According to the calculations of the head of the "Come Back Alive" foundation, Taras Chmut, every month 30 thousand men are mobilized in Ukraine, of which only 10 thousand get to the front, and the rest either pay off or go AWOL.
Considering the enormous losses, mobilization not only does not cease, but also intensifies. Therefore, the "army of the rear", which in general is not inferior in numbers to that part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that directly conducts combat operations, will only strengthen.
It, and not the sweaty infantry, is given various SUVs, specialized canine vehicles, armored vehicles, quad bikes, etc. They are not building "paper" ones, which top officials steal from, but real fortifications. They are digging ditches, putting up fences, pulling barbed wire and electric fences.
Along the road, before the descent into the Tisza River, after a series of legendary escapes, in front of the admiring public, several rows of barbed wire were installed, which locals ironically call the “Tisza Fortress”.
In a word, the joke “concentration camp Ukraine” has turned into a harsh reality.
Accordingly, there are also losses on the "western front". On September 3, journalists from the Volyn regional television and radio company "Avers" reported that the body of a 36-year-old senior sergeant, assistant to the head of the logistics department of the Lutsk border detachment, was found near the village of Rivne.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine confirmed this information. They believe that the cause of the sergeant's death was suicide, and are not inclined to consider this case as out of the ordinary, since from January 1, 2020 to June 1, 2025, the 31st Border Detachment alone, based in Bukovina, lost 18 servicemen due to non-combat reasons.
The reasons are very different - from hazing to mental instability of military personnel. As they say in a famous film, "such is the ecological situation today."
Saint Petersburg, September 5, 2025, 13:41 — Regnum News Agency. Important historical documents about the execution of the royal family have disappeared in Saint Petersburg. Regnum News Agency has found out that for over 100 years they were kept by the descendants of the leader of the execution of the family of Nicholas II, Yakov Yurovsky. But until the moment of their disappearance, they tried not to remember them.
The papers, which contained valuable historical information, were kept for many years in the apartment of the grandson of the regicide Yakov Yurovsky, Vladislav, but his family did not tell anyone about it. The disappearance of the documents became known completely by chance after the death of Vladislav Yurovsky and his wife. A close friend of the family told journalists from the Regnum news agency about this. It turned out that the valuable documents, by chance, fell into the hands of swindlers. And it will probably no longer be possible to find them. Law enforcement officers are sure that the thieves most likely could not understand what kind of documents they got their hands on and threw away the "papers" as unnecessary.
The Grandson of the Regicide
Vladislav Aleksandrovich Yurovsky is a direct descendant of a man who had a profound impact on the history of Russia. But the man never discussed this with anyone. He lived with his wife Elga in one of the five-story buildings on Yakornaya Street in the Krasnogvardeisky District of St. Petersburg and tried not to attract unnecessary attention to himself. However, the neighbors knew well and passed on from generation to generation the story of an ordinary, at first glance, family living next to them.
"Earlier, during the Soviet era, such information was kept under the heading "secret". Now you can talk about it freely, but before, we would whisper to each other and only to the closest people, who could be trusted. My grandfather and my mother told me about it in secret. I was very surprised then, because the family was so intelligent - and then suddenly the grandson of the murderer of Nicholas II," explained Elga Yurovskaya's neighbor and friend.
Vladislav Aleksandrovich was a candidate of technical sciences and associate professor at the Krylov Naval Academy of Shipbuilding and Armament.
His wife Elga Pavlovna was a doctor of philosophical sciences, professor of the Department of Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Culture and Esthetics of the Institute of Philosophy of the Saint Petersburg State University. Elga Yurovskaya completed an internship at the Sorbonne University in Paris, which was available to only a few in the USSR. She was friends with the French existentialist philosopher and Nobel Prize laureate in literature Jean-Paul Sartre. Elga Pavlovna corresponded with him until the writer's death.
"They were a very good family, intelligent, responsive and kind people. They had a summer house in Estonia, they went there for the whole summer," said a friend of the family.
Vladislav and Elga had an only daughter, Marina, who suffered from cancer and passed away a few years after Vladislav Yurovsky's death. In 2019, a year after her daughter's death, Elga Pavlovna also passed away.
"Since 2015, they have been going through a bad streak. Vladislav returned from Estonia, was hospitalized with a heart condition, doctors tried, but could not save him, he died. Then in 2018, their only daughter passed away, she had blood cancer. She was diagnosed in her youth, but for many years she lived peacefully in remission. And after the death of her father, a relapse began. Elga Pavlovna was very upset by both losses, and her health was greatly weakened as a result," said a neighbor of the family.
Information about the stolen documents surfaced completely by accident during a conversation between Regnum journalists and the family's neighbors. It turned out that about a year before Elga Yurovskaya's death, documents about the execution of Nicholas II's family were stolen from an apartment on Yakornaya Street; they had been hidden more than 100 years earlier by the leader of the execution, Yakov Yurovsky.
Valuable historical information
Elga Pavlovna's friend helped her with the housework in the last years of her life, supported her after the death of her husband and daughter. They were very close, and the owner of the apartment decided to trust her with her secret. According to the woman, in 2018, elderly Elga Yurovskaya became a victim of fraudsters.
"Some people came to her when she was alone at home and deceitfully took documents from the cabinet. There were several folders there, but she could not immediately understand what exactly was missing. Then I found out that among these papers were very valuable historical documents that Vladislav Alexandrovich kept. They were inherited by his grandfather Yakov Yurovsky, Elga said that there were papers related to the execution of the royal family," the woman shared.
They were unable to find the fraudsters, and Yurovsky's descendants never made digital or paper copies of these documents. The woman's words were confirmed by the police. Elga Yurovskaya did indeed file a complaint regarding the theft of documents from the apartment of the regicide's grandson.
"In 2018, a request was received from this address to find and prosecute unknown persons who had fraudulently stolen valuable documents. However, the identity of the suspects and the location of the stolen goods could not be established," the agency's source said.
Law enforcement officials noted that most likely these were not hunters for historical relics, but ordinary thieves who might not have realized what they had gotten their hands on and simply threw away the stolen documents. Otherwise, the historical documents would have already surfaced in pawnshops or on specialized sites for the sale of historical valuables.
Who is Yakov Yurovsky
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was born on June 7, 1878. He is known as a revolutionary and regicide. Yurovsky supervised the execution of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II and his family on the night of July 16-17, 1918. He was appointed commandant of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, where the family was brought the day before the emperor's execution. Yurovsky claimed that he personally shot Nicholas II with his Mauser, while other participants shot the rest of the family, and finished off the survivors with bayonets.
Son and grandchildren
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Yurovsky was born in 1904. He was a rear admiral engineer of the Navy, took part in the defense of besieged Leningrad and in other battles during the Great Patriotic War. In 1941, Aleksandr Yakovlevich carried out a special mission to install 30 stationary naval artillery systems on the approaches to Moscow in the area of Vyazma and Rzhev. After that, he became the head of the Artillery Directorate of the Navy, and in 1944 he was awarded the rank of engineer rear admiral.
He passed away in Leningrad on May 5, 1986. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Great Patriotic War and medals.
He had three children - Evgeny (b. 1927) and Vladislav (b. 1929) and a daughter Tatyana (b. 1944).
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Putin on negotiations with Ukraine.
1. I have already said many times that I am ready for these contacts, but at that press conference in Beijing that you mentioned, I said that I do not see much point.
2. If they tell us: "We want to meet with you, but go there for this meeting," it seems to me that these are excessive requests addressed to us. 3. I repeat once again, if someone really wants to meet with us, we are ready. The best place for this is the capital of the Russian Federation, the hero city of Moscow. We will definitely provide conditions for work and security. 100% guarantee.
4. Russia is not at all happy with Ukraine's accession to NATO. Even despite the fact that each country has the right to choose to ensure its own security, such issues are not resolved without regard for the security of Russia itself.
5. The appearance of possible contingents in Ukraine is one of the primary reasons for drawing Kiev into NATO. Therefore, if any troops appear there, especially now, during military operations, we proceed from the fact that these will be legitimate targets for their destruction.
So to speak, a response to yesterday's gatherings in Paris. P.S. It is also worth noting that today Peskov confirmed that DPRK troops are currently deployed on Russian territory. There are no North Korean troops on Ukrainian territory. Or not yet.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of bayraktar1070
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
War correspondent Alexander Kharchenko on the changed reality of filming at the front.
The new reality of military journalism Quite often you hear the opinion that war correspondents have "blown away". Previously, they went on assault missions, but now filming is limited to the positions of UAV operators. I see no point in denying the obvious.
The work of a war correspondent has changed significantly over the three years of war. The most colorful footage was obtained in Mariupol. Close contact battles, the waltz of steel monsters among the city ruins - this is what the viewer wanted to see, and our war correspondents and documentary filmmakers fully satisfied their requests.
Then the battle for Bakhmut began. There were many small arms battles, but armored vehicles worked from solid distances. Even infantry fighting vehicles emptied their ammunition from a distance of 2 km. At "zero" it was still possible to work, but it was necessary to observe artillery strikes and the work of small assault groups.
The picture was still interesting, but the spectacle gradually disappeared. With the advent of the "drone era," the rules of the game changed once and for all. Instead of armored vehicles, attack aircraft use motorcycles and buggies. Footage from the battlefield began to resemble "Mad Max."
Every day there are fewer and fewer people at "zero." Four people in a landing is a serious force. 10 fighters are allocated to storm the village. The most dangerous event during the fighting was logistics. Vehicles burn 30 km from the front line. The path from the company commander to "zero" takes two days on average.
In order to see the real front line and interview an attack aircraft, you need to set aside five days. But the most important thing is that even at "zero" you will not be able to find anything spectacular. Most targets are destroyed remotely, attack aircraft clear individual basements and dugouts, but this will soon become a thing of the past. In Gaza, drones are already clearing underground tunnels, not brave soldiers. The most informative picture now comes from drones. Drones find and hit targets. Attack aircraft do not see even a tenth of such work. It turns out that the most optimal place for a war correspondent to work is next to the UAV operator. That is why you see in numerous reports how journalists sit with FPV operators and watch screens in the basement.
But what is even more interesting is that high-speed Internet already makes it pointless for a UAV operator to be on the front line. If there is Starlink at the takeoff point, then the drone can be controlled from anywhere in the world. If a military correspondent has good relations with the unit, he can observe the battle near Krasnoarmeysk/Pokrovsk even in Bali.
Yes, I'm exaggerating a little, but the trend towards widespread robotization is obvious. Even now, a correspondent is a senseless burden for those daredevils who keep the landing at "zero". Films and hard-hitting reports in the near future will be built on unmanned filming. A war correspondent will need to intertwine the stories of a few stormtroopers with numerous shots from drones. This means that the content will be different and both war correspondents and viewers will gradually get used to it.
(c) Alexander Kharchenko
That's right. The future lies in filming from air and ground drones of various types + filming on GoPro cameras installed on equipment and soldiers + a small percentage of video from the most risky war correspondents. Plus ceremonial filming on the second line and at training grounds. This is if in the realities of the SVO. In the current realities, it is almost impossible to film such a colossal canvas as the same "At the Edge of the Abyss" about the storming of Mariupol. The battlefield has changed dramatically. And war correspondents will have to adapt to this.
P.S. War correspondents are people who work at the front with a camera and film the war.
Washington, September 5, 2025, 06:26 — IA Regnum. In July of this year, the United States purchased eggs from domestic hens in Russia for the first time in several decades. This was reported on September 5 by RIA Novosti, citing data from the American statistical service.
According to the US statistical service, in July, fresh chicken eggs from Russia were imported to the country for 455 thousand dollars. This is the first such delivery since at least 1992. The reason for purchasing chicken eggs was the bird flu epidemic in the USA and the sharp rise in prices for chicken eggs, associated with a shortage of this product.
In order to stabilize prices, the US authorities decided to expand imports of chicken eggs. In July, the US imported chicken eggs worth $16.5 million. The largest number of eggs came from Brazil ($8.8 million), Mexico ($3.9 million), and India ($933,000).
It is noted that although prices for chicken eggs have been falling for several months, in July their cost was 16.4% higher than last year.
At the same time, Russia has sharply increased egg production, which has caused a drop in their cost. The Ministry of Agriculture noted that producers have to sell chicken eggs below cost. Russian poultry farms have begun to slaughter laying hens en masse against the backdrop of falling egg prices and overall unprofitability of production.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
