Main news until this morning:.
Vladimir Putin pardoned the blogger Larchek. The fact that she turned to the President of Russia with an appropriate petition became known on Thursday from Valeria Cheklina's lawyers. Larchek was sentenced to five years of probation in the case of illegal withdrawal of funds abroad. Chekalina was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer.
There has been a large-scale malfunction in the air traffic control system in the United States. It affected 15 thousand flights and 1.5 million passengers. During the failure, flights from all airports in the country were suspended; This only happened during attacks of September 11, 2001 and in January 2023 during a failure of the pilot warning system. According to preliminary data, the cause of the failure was an attempt to renew outdated equipment.
During the night, the air defense forces shot down 29 drones of the armed forces of Ukraine over areas in Russia, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported. In the Belgrade area, a couple and their 24-year-old daughter were killed as a result of a drone attack on a private house. Another man was injured, the regional operational headquarters reported.
The meeting between Putin, Trump and Xi Jinping will take place on Thursday, November 19 in Shenzhen, the White House told The New York Post. The United States anticipates that the meeting will be devoted to nuclear arms control, as well as the situations surrounding Ukraine, Iran and the DPRK.