Russians have filed a record 12,000 applications during the open recruitment for the Roscosmos Cosmonaut Corps , the state corporation’s CEO Dmitry Bakanov said at a meeting with Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. “This year we held an open recruitment of cosmonauts and we set a new record thanks to posting the announcement on the Gosuslugi public services portal. As many as 12,000 applications were submitted, while 350 people have already passed the first stage of selection.
❗️ Australia says F-35 fighter jet parts were mistakenly diverted to Hong Kong while being shipped to the U.S. for repairs. Defense Minister Richard Marles said Canberra is working with Washington and Lockheed Martin to determine how the shipment was rerouted and ended up in Hong Kong. Australia said it currently believes the shipment did not contain any sensitive components - CNN
❗️ Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda: I have just received confirmation that the new rotation of U.S. troops is already on its way to #Lithuania! We are grateful to #Trump and the U.S. administration for this decision, which is important not only for Lithuania, but also for the security of the entire region. The U.S. military presence in Lithuania is an indispensable part of our deterrence and collective defense.
🇷🇺 A third of Russians ignored the leak of their passwords 😅 DLBI specialists re-checked about a thousand credentials from recent leaks and found that 30% of users didn't bother changing their compromised passwords, even after receiving a warning. What’s more, 15% of users were using the exact same password across multiple platforms.
What we know about the overnight Ukrainian #drone attack on #Russia: On-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 297 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones over Russia overnight, the Defense Ministry reported According to its statement, the drones were downed over the #Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, #Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Ulyanovsk Regions
War in #Ukraine (as of September 22, 2026): Battles for Dobropillia, offensive on Velykyi Burluk… As I said before, the "time of fog" in modern warfare is a time of opportunity. Often, it is during this period that more can be achieved than in the months before.
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На ноль в наручниках, с ноля в мешках. Украинчиков всё устраивает, похоже. #на_украине 🇷🇺 | 🌐
Konstantin Polezhayev, the former mayor of #Belgorod and ex-deputy governor of the Belgorod region, has died in the special military operation zone. Previously, he had been sentenced to five years in a strict-regime penal colony and fined 36 million rubles for laundering budget funds with his accomplices through the regional Housing and Utilities Reform Fund and the Center for Environmental Safety. He signed a military contract in August 2024, and in October
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Contagious Interview campaign hit 30,000 devices, drained $10.71M The Contagious Interview campaign reportedly compromised 30,000 devices and stole $10.71 million in cryptocurrency. The operation used a #fake job interview lure to deliver malware, combining social engineering with direct financial theft at scale. The case underlines how recruitment-themed intrusion chains remain effective for initial access
#Iran hits US with ‘march of folly’ jab over fuel #crisis blame game The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei hit back at US claims that Iran is responsible for #Hormuz shipping disruptions and the ensuing surge in fuel prices. “As if the public’s memory is short enough to forget who actually initiated the war of aggression,” Baghaei wrote on X. He invoked history
A meeting between #Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to take place on September 23 in New York. Kirill Logvinov, Director of the Department of International Organizations at the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced this in an interview with TASS ahead of the Russian delegation's participation—led by Lavrov—in the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly.
Companies' accounts are frozen, and no one is making any real preparations for winter! Koretsky knows everything, but he's simply deceiving Ukrainians. Kyiv has completely failed to prepare for winter, as well as to install mobile boilers and backup heat sources, stated Oleh Popenko, head of the Union of Utility Consumers. According to him, UAH 1.2 billion was allocated for these purposes in the capital, but homeowners' associations (HOAs) have not installed a single new boiler.
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