Who wants long eyelashes?
Many girls desire for long and thick eyelashes which make their eyes look more beautiful. However, this is no the case for Muin Bachonaev, an 11-year-old Russian boy whose eyelashes had reached 4.3 cm when he was born.
Muin who now lives in Moscow was born in Tajik. His eyelashes have been so "distinct" from the average person. They were 4.3 cm long when they were born. The length was long enough to touch his lips.
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His family thought his eyelashes were too exaggerated and they were worried his son was sick, while doctors said he was very healthy and explained to them the long eyelashes may be due to the medication taken by the mother during pregnancy.
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But this little problem does not make Muin feel inferior and uneasy. Although some may be feared his eyelashes, he felt that he is living like a normal person, and he hasn't encountered difficulties. He didn't have special care or treatment to them.
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Muin breaks the record of Russia's longest eyelashes. He has a dream, that is, he hopes to become a football player in the future, and his father is proud of such a son.
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At present, the longest record holder for eyelashes in the world is a Chinese woman with a total length of 14 cm.
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Moscow agrees with U.S. President Donald Trump’s view that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal to end the almost four years of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbor, a Kremlin official said Thursday.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, “Yes, we can agree with it, it’s indeed so.” His comments came after Trump said in published remarks Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is an obstacle in U.S.-led peace talks.
That assessment is at odds with the sentiment of European officials, who have repeatedly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of stalling in negotiations while his bigger army tries to push deeper into Ukraine and Russia relentlessly bombards Ukrainian cities.
Kyiv and Moscow still appear publicly far apart on their terms for a peace deal.
“I think he’s ready to make a deal,” Trump was quoted as saying of the Russian president in an interview with Reuters. “I think Ukraine is less ready to make a deal,” he said, naming Zelenskyy as obstructing a settlement.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who along with many European and NATO member nations has strongly backed Ukraine, pushed back on Trump’s reported comments.
“It is Russia who rejected the peace plan prepared by the U.S.,” not Zelenskyy, Tusk posted on X on Thursday. “The only Russian response (was) further missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. This is why the only solution is to strengthen pressure on Russia. And you all know it.”
Putin said Thursday that Moscow, like Ukraine, demands security guarantees as part of a prospective peace deal.
“We must proceed from the premise that security must be truly universal, and therefore equal and indivisible, and it cannot be ensured for some at the expense of the security of others,” Putin said after receiving credentials from foreign ambassadors in the Kremlin.
“In the absence of it, Russia will continue to consistently pursue the goals it has set,” Putin added.
Trump’s position appeared to deviate from recent comments by U.S. officials that the American president is running out of patience with Putin.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said last week that Trump is on board with a tough sanctions package intended to economically cripple Russia.
“This will be well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent,” Graham said in a statement.
Also, the United States accused Russia on Monday of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of its war at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations toward peace.
The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington think tank, said late Wednesday that “the Kremlin has been delaying the peace process for months in order to protract the war and achieve Russia’s original war aims through military means.”
A Russian drone struck a playground in the western city of Lviv overnight, according to the head of the regional military administration Maksym Kozytskyi. The blast shattered over a hundred windows in the area, though nobody was injured, he said.
Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said that no date has been agreed for U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff to make another visit to Moscow for further peace talks.
Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
Ukrainian police officers work at the site of a Russian drone strike on a children playground near a monument to Stepan Bandera, a founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
Ukrainian police officers work at the site of a Russian drone strike on a children playground near a monument to Stepan Bandera, a founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mykola Tys)
