St. Petersburg

"The Kremlin is intent on showing the attack on the Crimea bridge wasn't that serious and that the crucial lifeline from the Russian mainland to the illegally-annexed Crimean Peninsula will be1 back to normal soon", CNN reports.
However, the physical damage can be restored, but the damage to the image of Vladimir Putin, won't be that easy to repair, CNN believes.

"Next to the April Uprising and the struggle for the creation of the Bulgarian Exarchy, the Unification in the fall of 1885 is one of the rare bright events in Bulgarian history that can be said to be entirely the work of Bulgarians.

Gazprom said the gas pipeline to Germany, which was due to open at the weekend, would remain closed until a turbine could be repaired, cutting supplies to Europe indefinitely.

Türkiye's most populous province of Istanbul has been selected as the ninth dirtiest city in the world in terms of the amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) present in the air, a U.S. report has showed.

In the period between March and July, Russia became the second in the world in downloading VPN applications to bypass the restrictions on the Internet. This is indicated by data, cited by RBC, from AppMagic - a mobile application market analysis service.

The Deutsche Telecom IT hub (DT) in Thessaloniki will be employing over 500 people by 2024, as high-ranking executives of OTE revealed today, on the occasion of the visit of the Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, to hub facilities.

At a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not discuss the handover of missiles with nuclear weapons to Minsk.
These are systems that are technically capable of carrying various types of weapons, said the spokesman of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov.

Russian missiles regularly fly in other directions, hitting the military infrastructure.
Boris Johnson was in Kyiv on Friday, from where he promised that Britain would provide "strategic resilience" to Ukraine.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Lysychansk is under fire, heavy fighting continues in Sievierodonetsk

"Putin actually invented all these explanations that NATO is a threat to Russia. If we go back 20 years, when I was the prime minister, and he had the first presidential term, we see that Russia then had excellent relations with the United States and NATO in general", Kasyanov said.