The main thing for July 21

• CIA Director William Burns said that about 15 thousand Russian military had died in Ukraine, about 45 thousand were injured. The losses of the Ukrainian side are slightly less, but also "very significant." He also believes that rumors about the worsening health of Vladimir Putin are inactive. “As far as we can judge, he is too healthy,” Burns remarked.
  
  
• The Kremlin plans to hold a referendum on the accession of the captured territories of Ukraine in mid -September, Bloomberg reports citing sources. Voting will be held in the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, as well as in the territories that the Russian army will take in the remaining time.
  
  
• Large foreign banks, including Citigroup and Raiffeisenbank, resumed employees in Russia, faced difficulties when trying to leave the country. The Ministry of Finance of Russia did not give foreign banks Raiffeisenbank and Citibank to leave the Russian Federation because Russian banks cannot work in other countries.
  
  
• Ozon Marketplace began to produce its own debit cards, which can be paid outside the Internet verteler. The company had to create a new bank from scratch after sanction, Russian Forbes writes . At the test stage, 100,000 OZON users will be tested. From August 1, everyone will be able to issue a card.
  
  
• The head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik explained why the authorities of the self -proclaimed republic decided to ban Google .
  
  
• For more than 10 years, the structures belonging to the oligarch Roman Abramovich Evraz’s company collaborated with Rosguardia and enterprises that supply the army, produce tanks and explosives, and is approved in the OCCRP investigation . The company said that they are working only with enterprises from civilian sectors.
  
  
• According to the Ministry of Finance of Japan, in June the country was able to completely do without Russian oil: its imports turned out to be zero. The supply of Russian coal to the country fell by 59.5%, to 765 thousand tons. At the same time, Japan has increased the supply of liquefied natural gas from Russia. Compared to the same period, a year earlier it grew by 26.4% to 617 thousand tons.
  
  
• The British HSBC has agreed to sell its Russian business Expobank. The parties signed an agreement shortly before the Ministry of Finance promised to block the sale of assets of foreign banks in Russia.
  
  
• Italian Prime Minister Mario Draga resigned . President of the country Sergio Mattarell accepted her. For the first time, Dragon filed a petition on July 14, but the president of Italy did not accept it.
  
  
• According to psychiatrists and psychotherapists and according to analysts of the pharmaceutical market, in Russia the incidence of depressive disorders is growing and the demand for antidepressants increases. Sales of medicines in the first half of 2022, compared with the same period of the 2021st, increased by 81.3% in money and 51.7% in quantity.
  
  
• On the morning of July 21, Russian troops fired at Kharkov. According to the mayor of the city of Igor Terekhov, "one of the most densely populated areas of the city." Terekhov also said that Russian troops were in one of Kharkov’s medical facilities. According to information at 15:00 in Kyiv, three people died and 23 were injured.
  
  
• "Ukrainian Pravda" with reference to sources surrounded by Vladimir Zelensky writes that Oleg Kiper prosecutor can become the new general general prosecutor of Ukraine. Irina Venediktov was fired on Monday July 19.

• Russia has not yet been able to destroy a single HIMARS MLRS, the Pentagon press service said. Russia, on the other hand, claims to destroy three Himars.
  
  
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Siyyarto : "Reality remains a reality - without sources from Russia it is impossible to purchase an additional 700 million cubic meters of gas. You can dream and build air castles, but this is reality."