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Daily Mail
07-08-2025
- Daily Mail
Fake booze kills at least ten people at Russian tourist resort, with victims going blind before suffering organ shutdown and horrific deaths
Fake alcohol has killed at least ten people who went blind and suffered organ failure before dying agonising deaths at a Russian tourist resort. Following the methanol poisonings, which occurred in Sirius, near Sochi in southwestern Russia, two residents of the Krasnodar Territory were detained. The duo, Olesya, 31, and Eteri, 71, were suspected of distributing the fake homemade alcoholic beverage - known locally as Chacha - to several tourists. Among the dead are Maxim Smetanin, 37, and his wife Darya, 35, who bought the bootleg alcohol in the popular tourist market while they were on holiday. Darya had small sips of the deadly drink on a long-distance train going home. 'First she went blind, and then lost consciousness,' a report stated. She was rushed from the train to hospital in Russia's Voronezh region but died soon afterwards. Her husband initially did not feel ill, but his condition quickly worsened. 'Before death, Maxim went blind, his kidneys collapsed and fell into a coma,' said Online Voronezh channel. The arrests followed a police and national guard raid of the Kazachiy market stall where the poisonous brew is believed to have originated. All of the products have since been confiscated and sent for testing. Among the dead are Maxim Smetanin, 37, and his wife Darya, 35, who bought the bootleg alcohol in the popular tourist market while they were on holiday. Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Major General Irina Volk issued an urgent warning to Russians not to drink 'alcohol-containing products of unknown origin'. 'Preliminary findings indicate that the detainees were selling homemade alcoholic beverages at the local Kazachiy market,' she said on Wednesday. 'After consuming it, several citizens were taken to a medical facility with signs of toxic effects. Subsequently, three of them died. 'According to available information, there may be more victims, including among tourists from different regions. 'Efforts are currently underway to identify the producer of the life-threatening alcohol and others involved in the illegal activity', she concluded. There are fears the death toll will rise, according to several local reports. The United Press Service of the Krasnodar Region Courts reported that during the hearings on the case of the 'Chacha' poisoning, the exact number of victims was not named - it has been widely reported that 'at least 10 people' died. It is also known that five victims were hospitalised. Telegram channel Mash, however, reported that the death toll had reached 12. 'Four more died from moonshine poisoning - a man from Pskov and three residents of the DPR. Tourists from Donetsk bought alcohol at BaZar and took it with them - at home they treated a friend to it, all three died,' the channel wrote. Three members of another family of four were also killed by the deadly cocktail bought from the Russian market. The Bazar market known as Kazachiy in Sochi, believed to be the source of poisoned alcohol which has claimed the lives of at least 10 The next day, they all felt unwell and assumed it was simply a hangover. 'By the evening, they were unable to stand or speak, and began losing consciousness,' reported Kub Mash Telegram channel. 'Paramedics took all four to hospital, but only one could be saved.' Two women aged 57 and 69, and a man aged 42 died.
Japan Today
08-06-2025
- Politics
- Japan Today
Russia advances to east-central Ukrainian region amid row over dead soldiers
Milana, 4, and her mother Olesya, 42, sit in an armoured vehicle as a police evacuate them, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine June 7, 2025. REUTERS/Anatolii Stepanov By Guy Faulconbridge, Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Aleksandar Vasovic Russia said on Sunday its forces had advanced to the edge of the east-central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk amid a public row between Moscow and Kyiv over peace negotiations and the return of thousands of bodies of soldiers who fell in the war. Despite talk of peace, the war is stepping up with Russian forces grabbing more territory in Ukraine and Kyiv unfurling high-profile drone and sabotage attacks on Russia's nuclear-capable bomber fleet and, according to Moscow, on railways. Russia, which controls a little under one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, has taken more than 190 square km (73 square miles) of the Sumy region of northeastern Ukraine in less than a month, according to pro-Ukrainian open source maps. Now, according to the Russian defense ministry, units of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Grouping of Russian forces have reached the western frontier of Ukraine's Donetsk region and are attacking the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region. "The enemy does not abandon its intentions to enter the Dnipropetrovsk region," Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces said on Telegram. "Our soldiers are courageously and professionally holding their section of the front, disrupting the occupier's plans. This work does not stop for a minute." Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said the Dnipropetrovsk offensive showed that if Ukraine did not want to accept the reality of Russia's territorial gains in peace talks then Moscow's forces would advance further. The pro-Ukrainian Deep State map showed Russian forces very close to the Dnipropetrovsk region, which had a population of more than 3 million before the war, and advancing on the city of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region from several directions. A Ukrainian military spokesman, Dmytro Zaporozhets, said that Russian forces were trying to "build a bridgehead for an attack" on Kostyantynivka, an important logistical hub for the Ukrainian army. Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of delaying the swap of prisoners of war and return of the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers. Ukraine denied those claims. On Sunday, Russia said it was moving bodies towards the border and television showed refrigerated trucks containing the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers on the road in the Bryansk region. Ukraine, officials said, was playing politics with the dead. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pledged to press on with prisoner exchanges. "The Russian side is therefore, like always, even in these matters, is trying to play some kind of dirty political and information game," he said in his nightly video address. "We believe that the exchanges will continue and will do everything for this. If the Russians do not stand by agreements even in humanitarian matters, it casts great doubt on all international efforts - including those by the United States in terms of talks and diplomacy." Zelenskiy said he had reviewed commanders' reports about areas hit by heavy fighting, including near Pokrovsk, targeted by Moscow for months. He said the situation was "far from easy, but everything depends on the resilience of our units." U.S. President Donald Trump, who says he wants an end to the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two, on Thursday likened it to a fight between young children and indicated that he might have to simply let the conflict play out. ACCUSATIONS OVER WILLINGNESS FOR PEACE Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that he did not think Ukraine's leaders wanted peace, after accusing them of ordering a bombing in Bryansk, western Russia, that killed seven people and injured 115 a day before talks in Turkey. Ukraine, which has not commented on the attack on a Bryansk bridge, has similarly accused Moscow of not seriously seeking peace, citing Russian resistance to an immediate ceasefire. Russia is demanding international recognition of Crimea, a peninsula it annexed from Ukraine in 2014, and four other regions of Ukraine that Moscow has claimed as its own territory. Ukraine would have to withdraw its forces from all of them. Russia controlled 113,273 square km, or 18.8%, of Ukrainian territory as of June 7, according to the Deep State map. That is an area bigger than the U.S. state of Virginia. The areas under Russian control include Crimea, more than 99% of the Luhansk region, over 70% of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, all in the east or southeast, and fragments of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions in the northeast. Putin told Trump on Wednesday that he would have to respond to Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia's bomber fleet and the bombings of the railways. Zelenskiy warned Ukrainians in his video message to be particularly attentive to air raid warnings in the coming days. The United States believes that Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its attacks has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters. © Thomson Reuters 2025.
