The President of Kazakhstan, during a protocol meeting with Putin, questioned Moscow’s view of the war in Ukraine and proposed to “freeze” it. President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during the protocol part of the meeting with Vladimir Putin, unexpectedly started talking about the Russian war and...

The MAGA community began to change its attitude towards Ukraine The second prominent representative of the MAGA community (from Make America Great Again) in a week publicly renounced his previous anti-Ukrainian position. Following activist Laura Loomer, who is close to Donald Trump, Ukraine was supported by the right...

On Saturday, Ukraine continued attacks on Wildberries warehouses. After the drone attack on Yekaterinburg, the marketplace’s logistics center suspended operations. This is the fifth time in eight days that its warehouses have come under attack. Against this background, some sellers are trying to withdraw goods or money from WB. Back in the middle of the week, it became known that the marketplace was limiting the export of goods.

Disagreements between the Donald Trump administration and Democrats over the president's authority to impose tariffs have become the main obstacle to the passage of a massive Russia sanctions bill. The House of Representatives went on a five-week recess without agreeing on the document, The New York Times writes . The Senate will try to discuss it next week. Details.

The first tangible blow of the 21st package of EU sanctions fell on the Russian financial sector. Already in the first hours, some of the remaining channels for transferring money abroad stopped working. And former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich actually lost the leadership of the International Chess Federation. Details . Zolotaya Korona sharply reduced the geography of transfers after falling under sanctions.

The Bank of Russia on Friday cut its key rate by 25 basis points, despite economists' expectations. At the same time, in the press release about the decision on the regulator’s website, the phrase traditional for recent documents that the Central Bank will continue to analyze the possibility of reducing the rate in the future disappeared. This may hint that further rate cuts are not planned. Details . The Central Bank reduced the key rate to 14% per annum.

Putin returned to traveling around the regions after a pause of 8.5 months Vladimir Putin arrived in Irkutsk on Friday for an unannounced visit. This is Putin's first trip to the regions in 8.5 months that is not related to an international forum that requires the presence of the president. Details. About the visit... pic.twitter.com/7Itz2QcrAI — Agency News (@agents_media) July 24, 2026 Vladimir Putin arrived in Irkutsk on Friday for an unannounced visit.

The Pentagon has updated the list of foreign institutions “engaged in problematic activity.” Now there are 33 Russian universities and scientific institutions on the list. Many Russian publications (including state and censored ones ) wrote that Moscow State University, Higher School of Economics, and Skoltech were added to the register. In fact, they were added earlier. This time, seven other institutions were added to the list. Details .

Wildberries became the main target of Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes Ukrainian drones attacked Wildberries warehouses in St. Petersburg, Leningrad region and Simferopol. In just a week (the first strike was on Saturday), at least nine marketplace warehouses were damaged. They were hit... pic.twitter.com/Q5rxzXMhqp — Agency News (@agents_media) July 24, 2026 Ukrainian drones attacked Wildberries warehouses in St. Petersburg, Leningrad region and Simferopol.

Since the beginning of the week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have carried out at least 25 strikes on gas stations in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, as follows from statements by local authorities and reports from regional publications. There have not been such a number of gas station strikes in any week this summer. The total number of strikes at gas stations in July in the Belgorod region increased almost fivefold, and at gas stations in the Kursk region - twofold.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked one of the newest logistics centers of Russian Post, built for delivery from AliExpress During an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Thursday night, a drone hit the Russian Post distribution center in the Voronezh region, Astra found out. The center was put into operation only in 2025...

A Su-57 military plane crashed in the Moscow region. The Ministry of Defense cited a technical malfunction as the preliminary cause of the fall. Z-blogs allow "friendly fire" from the ground. The Su-57 is a Russian fifth-generation fighter that Vladimir Putin called “the best in the world” in June. Details . The plane crashed during a combat training flight, the Ministry of Defense reported . According to the department, the pilot ejected and was not injured.

EU countries have reached an agreement on the 21st package of sanctions against Russia, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. He will introduce sanctions against Russian banks close to the original volume, and will also maintain the ceiling on Russian oil prices for a year.

In Voronezh, the Wildberries warehouse did not open in the morning, the attack on which was reported by the Ukrainian monitoring telegram channel Exilenova+. Officially, authorities reported that two marketplace buildings had been hit, without naming them. A video of a fire near Voronezh indicates that it broke out several kilometers from the Wildberries and Ozon warehouses. At the same time, another Ukrainian channel Supernova+ published a photo with smoke in Kazan.

Iran's strikes on CIA facilities in the Persian Gulf have prompted US intelligence to begin investigating whether Russia provided assistance to Tehran for the attacks, Reuters reported, citing four sources. They have not yet reached final conclusions on this issue, the agency notes. Details . In March, at least two CIA facilities were hit by Iran - one at the US Embassy in Saudi Arabia, the second in eastern Iraq, writes Reuters.