
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is an organized criminal group, comparing it to the quartet from the fable of Ivan Krylov and accusing it of involvement in terrorist attacks under the control of Western curators.
AI-generated summary
The statement comes in the context of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, where Russian officials regularly criticize the legitimacy and actions of the Kyiv authorities.
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry called the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine an organized criminal group. She also compared the Ukrainian cabinet of ministers to the quartet from Ivan Krylov’s fable, TASS writes.
“Do you still call it the government? It seems to me that this is from the category of Krylov’s fable “Quartet”: “And you, friends, no matter how you sit down, you are not fit to be musicians,” she noted, hinting at frequent reshuffles in the government.
According to Zakharova, the problem is that “these are not members of the Ukrainian government - these are all organized crime groups, these are representatives of an organized criminal group with direct involvement in carrying out terrorist attacks.”
The diplomat emphasized that no matter how they “seat, Western curators order the music for this bloody quartet.”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Russia may repeat similar accusations in future official statements or in international forums.
Likely · Within weeks

A soldier of the 41st brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Todorov, said that after publishing a video criticizing the situation in Ukraine and calling for civil protest on September 10, his phone was taken away, the video was deleted, they tried to send him to a psychiatric institution and threatened him with criminal prosecution for refusing to carry out the order due to his health condition.

For the State Duma elections in 2026, at least 47 polling stations will be opened abroad in European countries. The largest number of sites will be in France, Italy and Cyprus - four each. In Germany, due to the closure of the Consulate General in Bonn, voting is only possible at the embassy in Berlin. Russians living in Poland will also be able to vote at specially created polling stations in the Kaliningrad region near the border.

The EU's head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, expressed concern about the victory of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party in the elections in Saxony, saying that parties that ignore warnings about the Russian threat are strengthening their positions. The AfD received 43.8% of the vote, the CDU - 17.2%.

The White House posted a meme on social media X with 44 portraits of Secretary of State Marco Rubio in front of a SpongeBob SquarePants booth on Labor Day, calling him the best employee of the month.

The UK government is set to announce trade-related sanctions against Israel over West Bank settlement expansion, despite US and domestic political criticism.

The head of Rosarkhiv, Andrei Artizov, said that the decision of the National Archives of Finland to limit access to copies of historical documents from Russia creates conditions for falsification of history and follows the Ukrainian path of politicization of archives, emphasizing the historical relationship of the two countries and giving examples of joint archival projects.