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Al Arabiya
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- Al Arabiya
Indian Police Find Russian Woman and Her 2 Daughters Living in an Isolated Forest Cave
Police in India's southern Karnataka state said Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, aged six and four, were found by police during a routine patrol to Ramatirtha Hill, a popular tourist site on the coast of Karnataka, on July 9. Police officer Sridhar S.R. said the family had been living in the cave for more than a week. Police said they were taking steps to repatriate Kutina to Russia for overstaying her visa. She and her children have been moved to a nearby detention facility for foreigners living illegally in India. Police said in a statement that Kutina spent her time in the cave meditating by candlelight and that she told investigating officers she was interested in staying in the forest and worshiping God. Sridhar said Kutina told police that she had worked as a tutor of Russian language in Goa, a coastal tourist state in southern India. 'It is nothing but her love for adventure that brought her here,' said Sridhar. He said police found pictures of Hindu deities on the inside walls of the cave where Kutina had been living. In a photograph provided by the police, she is seen in front of makeshift curtains made of red saris that covered the entrance to the cave. The Russian Embassy in New Delhi didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. The police statement said Kutina sent a message to her friends after she was found. 'Our peaceful life in the cave has ended – our cave home destroyed,' she wrote in the message, according to the statement. The Associated Press contacted Kutina over the phone, but she declined to comment. On Tuesday, she told news agency Press Trust of India that she spent her days in the cave by painting, singing, reading books, and living peacefully with her children.
Saudi Gazette
8 hours ago
- Saudi Gazette
Russia launches fresh wave of overnight attacks targeting several Ukrainian cities
KYIV — Russian forces launched a fresh wave of attacks on several Ukrainian cities overnight into Wednesday, with at least 15 people injured in one of the strikes. Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as one ballistic missile, through the night, the Ukrainian air force said. The strikes targeted north-eastern Kharkiv, which is Ukraine's second-largest city, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's hometown of Kryvyi Rih, Vinnytsia in the west and Odesa in the south. "Russia does not change its strategy," Zelenskyy said. "To effectively counter this terror, we need a systemic strengthening of defence: more air defence, more interceptors, and more resolve so that Russia feels our response." A barrage of Iranian-made Shahed drones was fired in the early hours of Wednesday morning, targeting the Vinnytsia region. Ukraine's Air Force says it intercepted 18 of them, but one struck civilian least two hits on civilian buildings were recorded in the region. Eight people were injured in the attack, five of them suffering severe burns with at least two in critical of the victims underwent surgery after suffering 50% burns to their private homes in the village of Pysarivka suffered varying degrees of damage. Many of the properties saw roofs caved in, blown-out windows and partially collapsed walls. Electricity and gas supply systems also sustained southern city of Zaporizhzhia was also targeted by Moscow. At least 30 apartments were reported damaged after a barrage of drones struck at least on district in the Governor Ivan Fedorov said there were no casualties following the overnight strikes, but did note that several civilians sustained minor injuries during on Tuesday, Zaporizhzhia was the target of more than 400 Russian strikes on 14 settlements targeting everything from residential complexes to energy also came under attack on Wednesday morning. A series of explosions were heard around 01:00 am local of the drones struck a multi-story residential building, causing a fire. The blaze engulfed part of the apartments, damaging multiple services quickly arrived on the scene and were able to contain the fire not long after it broke out, according to the head of Kramatorsk City Military Administration, Oleksandr attacks are part of the Kremlin's latest escalations of its aerial campaign against civilian areas and comes ahead of a 2 September deadline set by US President Donald Trump for Russia to reach a peace deal in its war with Ukraine, well into its fourth threatened to slap Moscow with tariffs of "about 100%," in addition to secondary tariffs, and 100% tariffs on any country purchasing Russian energy, if it fails to reach a peace agreement with its neighbour within 50 days. — Euronews
Arab News
8 hours ago
- Arab News
Russia seizes $150 mn cocaine haul hidden in banana shipment
MOSCOW: Russia said Wednesday it had seized 820 kilograms (1,800 pounds) of cocaine hidden under a shipment of bananas, calling it its largest bust of drugs from Latin America this year. Cocaine smuggling into Russia has surged over the past two years, according to Russia's Izvestia newspaper. Drug traffickers are increasingly looking to the country as a transit hub, in part because the Ukrainian port of Odesa has become inaccessible due to Russia's offensive, the paper said. Russia's customs service, working jointly with the FSB security service, said it had uncovered a batch worth 'more than 12 billion rubles ($153 million)' stashed in banana containers. The cocaine packages — disguised in briquettes bearing the label of a French luxury fashion brand — were discovered in a 'hidden cavity' under the bananas, it added. It carried out the bust after a tip-off from 'foreign colleagues about the intention of a South American criminal group to organize a smuggling channel for cocaine supplies to Russia.' It said an investigation had been opened into large-scale drug trafficking, a charge that in Russia carries maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Russia has a zero-tolerance policy toward drug use and smuggling, handing heavy sentences to those convicted of trafficking small amounts of narcotics — including foreigners.
