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Russia has noticed the United States about the temporary withdrawal of its objects from the inspection under an agreement on a reduction in nuclear weapons. Moscow claims that such actions are provided for by the contract in exceptional cases, but in general all this is alarming . Other news also does not inspire optimism:

• The Pentagon estimated the losses of Russia in Ukraine at 70–80 thousand killed and wounded.
• In Melitopol, an order was signed on the holding of a referendum on the accession of the Zaporizhzhya region of Ukraine to Russia.
• British experts found in the weapons that Russia used in Ukraine, 450 types of foreign details, some of which were clearly purchased bypassing sanctions.
• Ukraine claims that for the report of Amnesty International on the Armed Forces of Ukraine used the testimony of people from the “filtration camps” in the occupied territories.
• The Moscow City Court closed the meeting in the case of Ilya Yashin, so as not to give him a "platform to popularize his anti -war ideas."
• In Russia, they stopped changing the elevators and began to disassemble planes for spare parts.

Military reports

On Monday night, the Russian army fired at Nikolaev, the Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions ( here more ); In the morning, during the shelling of Kharkov, one person died . There are no special changes in the Donbass: according to Medusa , if the Russians retain the current pace of advancement, then they will leave for a complete capture of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions for several years. Life in the front -line cities does not become easier from this: here is a report from Slavyansk and environs, here are the frames from Toretsk and Kramatorsk.

The Ukrainian army on Monday night struck Himars missiles at the positions of the Russian army in Melitopol ( according to the Ukrainian mayor of the city, a “significant number of equipment” was destroyed, more than a hundred military personnel were killed) and again fired at the Antonon bridge in Kherson, as a result of which Russian construction equipment burned down. On Tuesday night in Melitopol, explosions were again heard .

The Pentagon estimated the losses of Russia killed and wounded at 70–80 thousand people. Russia does not publish its own data; “BBC” managed to establish the names of 5420 killed according to open sources, among them-two more sailors of the Moscow cruisers, whose death the Russian authorities officially recognized .

To make up for the lack of personnel on the fronts in 20 regions of Russia, more than 40 volunteer regiments were formed, according to Kommersant ; Wagner's PMC continues to recruit in the colonies , and Nikita Mikhalkov glorifies in his “demon” the already murdered prisoner, who was serving his term for mockery of other prisoners.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine announced the arrival of three cheetahs of three anti -aircraft gunschers to Ukraine, and the Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey Vasily Bodnar said that the Turkish company Baykar registered in Ukraine and acquired the land for the production plant for the Bayraktar drunks (the agreement on this was signed shortly before the war). The United States approved the next package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling a billion dollars: Kiev, in particular, will receive ammunition for Himars systems, artillery guns and mortars, anti-tank systems Javelin and AT4, armored “fast-ups”, explosives C-4, ammunition and equipment for undermining, medical supplies.

Experts of the British Royal United Institute of Defense Studies studied weapons, which Russia used in Ukraine and found 450 types of foreign details in it, at least part of which came to Russia bypassing Western sanctions - more details here .

In the occupied territories

Evgeny Balitsky - the so -called head of the Zaporizhzhya regional administration, who was appointed Russian troops - signed an "order to hold a referendum on the reunification of the region with Russia." This happened in Melitopol as part of the forum organized by the occupation authorities. The date of the "referendum" was not announced at the event. Here is a video from this event. The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov claims that the audience in the hall is a specially brought mass. Here, the Ukrainian head of the Zaporizhzhya region, Alexander Old woman, explains why it makes no sense to discuss this “referendum”.

Vitaly Efimenko, appointed by Russia of the New Kakhovka, (in pre-war life, was a Ukrainian businessman) was detained by the Russian police on suspicion of banditry-he allegedly seized weapons and “tens of millions of rubles”. Last Saturday, the other deputy head of the New Kakhovka, Vitaly Gur, was killed by Russia. A day earlier, news appeared on the poisoning of the head of the pro -Russian administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo. According to the deputy of the Kherson regional council, Sergei Hlany, the FSB thus gets rid of local leaders who were needed by the invaders during the transition period, and replaces them with their people.

The head of the so -called “DPR” Denis Pushilin confirmed that his “republic” will conduct “Tribunal” over Ukrainian prisoners of war in Mariupol: now, they say, premises and “evidence base” are being prepared.

Vice-mayor of the Buchi of the Kiev region Mikhailin Skorik -shkarovsk clarified data on the dead residents of the city-there were 458 people.

In Ukraine

• The court in Chernigov sentenced the Russian tanker Mikhail Kulikov to 10 years in the colony in the case of shelling from the tank of a residential building. He fully pleaded guilty.
• The Security Service of Ukraine announced the detention of two members of the GRU sabotage and intelligence group. They seemed to plan to kill the Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov, the head of the main intelligence department of Kirill Budanov and the Ukrainian activist Sergei Korotkikh nicknamed Malyuta.
• The State Bureau of Investigations of Ukraine is suspected by Mikhail Yezhel, who served as Minister of Defense of the country in 2010-12, in Gosizmen in connection with the conclusion of the “Kharkov agreements” on the placement of the Russian fleet in the Crimea, which allegedly created the conditions for the Russian annexation of the peninsula in 2014. Ezhel, no later than 2017, received a refugee status in Belarus.
• The American television company CBS deleted its documentary “Armed Ukraine” released on August 4. There - without context - it is claimed that a third of military assistance supplied to Ukraine does not fall to the front, and one of the speakers of the film is the employee of Amnesty International Donatella Rover, the author of the report that the Ukrainian army uses civil objects for hostilities. The film is promised to bring to mind and release again.
• As for the Amnesty report itself, the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communications claims that during its compilation, people from “filtration camps” in the occupied territories were used, and this is unacceptable, since people were under Russian pressure.
• For the first time from the beginning of the war, the South Carrow was released from the port of South under Odessa, which follows to Italy. He united in a caravan with a balker who left the port of Chernomorsk to the Netherlands. On board both ships 60 thousand tons of food. At the same time, the buyer in Lebanon abandoned the Ukrainian corn delivered by the “Divorce” vessel (the first left from Odessa), referring to a five -month delay with delivery. The supplier is looking for another buyer.
• The United States will provide the Ukrainian government with an additional $ 4.5 billion of dollars of financial support to cover budget expenditures.
• The Russian Senator Klishas proposed preparing a “legal basis” for the confiscation of Ukrainian property. The petition on the website of the President of Ukraine with a proposal for 50 years to ban the entrance to the country for all Russians gained 25 thousand signatures. This means that Zelensky will be obliged to consider this proposal.

Russian life

In the order of the fight against anti -veinism:

• The Moscow City Court closed the meeting in the case of Ilya Yashin, so as not to give him a "platform to popularize his anti -war ideas." The poster “No War”, which Yashin held, the press service of the court recorded, and the decision to arrest the politician, the appeal for which the court was considered, was upheld.
• The former editor of Channel One Marina Ovsyannikova, the court appointed another fine (40 thousand rubles) for “discrediting” the Russian army through posts in social networks.
• A resident of Sochi was fined 30 thousand rubles for the poster “Za Death, Za poverty, za ruling thieves. For which they die”, which she placed on the handrails of the ring road (also “discrediting”).
• A new criminal case was brought against journalist Sergei Reznik who left Russia - about extortion. Earlier, he became the accused in the criminal case of the “fakes” about the Russian army.
• The Moscow musician Grigory Mumrikov was released from the pre -trial detention center under house arrest - he is accused under the article “Hooliganism” for participating in preparing the failed anti -war action, and he denies this participation.
• Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said in an interview with Kommersant that 138 thousand sites have blocked in Russia since the war in Russia. “Roskomsvoboda” counted only 5300.

From non -person persecution:

• The Kaliningrad activist Vadim Khairullin was appointed the year of the colony under the “Dadinskaya” article on repeated violation of rallies due to shares in support of Navalny (the prosecutor's office asked for two years conditionally).
• In the same Kaliningrad, LGBT activist Leonid Georgievsky received a warning from the police for the propaganda of "non-traditional relations" on the social network-he mentioned Facebook about the planned transgender crossing. But the point there is not in “propaganda”: Georgievsky illuminates the courts over activists and is not silent at all.

In Russia, they stopped changing the elevators and began to disassemble the aircraft to spare parts. Putin allowed the Russian banks to freeze some operations in the currency of those countries that imposed these sanctions. Why did he previously ban transactions with the investors from the "unfriendly" countries with shares and shares of Russian "strategic" enterprises are intelligibly explained here .

International Echo of War

• Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev gave an interview to TASS about the next anniversary of the war with Georgia. In it, he called Georgia and Ukraine the “links of the same chain”, which was invented by the “Anglo -Saxons” to destroy Russia. Mikhail Saakashvili, who headed Georgia during this war, Medvedev called “a crazy freak, a fool of a cardboard, a bloody moron, a wretched leader, an open dictator”, and the current president of Ukraine - “an unshaven guy in a green T -shirt from Kyiv” (sounds almost respectfully!).
• Against this background, Helsinki dismantled the “World around the world” monument, donated by the USSR in 1989, and in Narva they decided to transfer the T-34 tank, which once symbolized the victory in the Great Patriotic War ( read about this discussion here ).
• Here is an interesting conversation about the state of the Swedish army and the fears of Stockholm in connection with possible Russian aggression.
• The United States decided to withdraw the Airbus A319 plane, owned by the Russian billionaire and State Duma deputy Andrei Skoch.
• Gazprom restored gas supply to Latvia, terminated in late July due to “violations of the selection conditions”. How the Western countries are going to create a cartel to limit Russian oil prices and why it will most likely fail, read here .
• The German Social Democrats found no reason to exclude from the party the former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and the great friend of Putin Gerhard Schroeder, and Bulgaria suddenly decided to give Russia businessman Alexei Alchi, who was arrested in absentia in the case of tax evasion, which he himself calls fabricated. His extradition to Russia was required only when he began to actively participate in shares against the war in Ukraine.

Around the world

It is executed for two years in mass protests in Belarus . Here is a story about how these two years passed for Sergei Tikhanovsky, from the detention and prevention of which a creative Belarusian protest began in the elections. Tikhanovsky was sentenced to 18 years in prison, and repressions are not stopped in the country: the former chief of the Borisov News newspaper Anatoly Bukas (the spread of “extremist materials”), the press secretary of the A1 telecommunication company, Nikolai Bravyev, is accused of financing “extremist formation”. The war only added “offenders”: according to the Vesna human rights center, more than a thousand Belarusians were detained for anti -war shares.

China announced new military exercises near Taiwan.

Former US President Donald Trump said on his personal social network that “dark times” came for the people of America because his “beautiful house, Mar-a-hala to Palm Beach, the state of Florida, is in a siege, and is occupied by a large group of FBI agents.” What they are doing there, Trump did not explain, but in April it was reported that the US Ministry of Justice began an investigation to export Trump from the White House of official presidential documents.

Six links

• Literary critics. A connoisseur of Russian Symbolists, Alexander Lavrov, recalls his life and scientific biography. Philologist Alexander Sobolev, who turned to the novelist and became famous for the book “The Griffins Protect Lira”, tells about his new novel “Shadow behind the right shoulder”, published in the publishing house of Ivan Lumbach.
• Women's letter. The story of the life and work of Olivia Lang is one of the most popular modern British writers. Or a conversation with the historian Veronika Zuseva-Ozan about the image of a woman and the female beginning in Russian philosophy and literature of the Silver Age.
• Family. An excerpt from Viktor Vilisov’s book “The Future of Human Intimateness” (AST Publishing House) is that few people need a traditional family today. Or a fragment from the book of Darcy Lokman “The Right to Anger” (Publishing House “needs help”)-why and in the 21st century, domestic duties are still chatted at a woman.

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