According to Energoatom, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian armed forces, Valery Vasiliev, said that on the site of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant "there will be either Russian soil or a scorched desert." Vasiliev allegedly told his soldiers about the mining of “all important facilities” of the nuclear power plant: “We warned them. The enemy knows that the station will be either Russian or no one's.

The Moscow City Court rejected the appeal to the conclusion of the policy of Ilya Yashin to custody, the OVD-info reports with reference to the politician’s lawyer Mikhail Biryukov. Yashin was connected to a meeting on the video. On a broadcast from the pre -trial detention center, he showed a poster with the inscription "No War." The meeting was closed to journalists.

Russia banned the United States from inspecting its nuclear weapons under the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (CHB-III Treaty - approx. Kholod). According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the reason for this decision is that Russia is “virtually deprived” of the right to inspect on US territory. The states have closed the skies to Russian aircraft, so Russian inspection teams allegedly cannot enter American territory.

Opposition politician Veronika Tsepkala, who was part of the joint headquarters of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in the presidential elections in Belarus in 2020, proposed at the New Belarus conference in Vilnius to create a committee to control independent media. According to her, activists close to Tsepkala's headquarters analyze the content of non-state media in Belarus in terms of mentioning various political forces.

More than 40 volunteer detachments have appeared in at least 20 regions of Russia, assembled on a territorial basis for the war in Ukraine. Such units receive names that somehow refer to the territorial affiliation, and the detachment most often includes residents of the region in which it is formed. Information about them is published in the media and social networks of local authorities. In different regions, fighters are promised different amounts - from 100 to 300 thousand rubles.

The Tverskoy District Court changed the measure of restraint for the artist and musician Grigory Mumrikov - he was sent under house arrest. He spent about three months in the pre-trial detention center. The investigation accuses Mumrikov of hooliganism due to the preparation of a performance during the May 9 parade in Moscow. According to investigators, that day the actionist Danila Tkachenko, a friend of Mumrikov, planned to launch smoke in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on Red Square.

The occupying head of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky at the forum "We are with Russia" announced that he had signed an order to hold a referendum in the region on joining Russia. What date the referendum will take place is not reported. Source: RIA Novosti

Picketer Aleksey Ushakov was detained near the Moscow City Court building, picketing with a poster in support of politician Ilya Yashin. Ushakov is being taken to the Preobrazhenskoye police station. Today, the Moscow City Court will consider an appeal against Yashin's placement in custody. He has been in a pre-trial detention center since July 13 in the case of “fake news” about the army (paragraph “e” of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). He faces up to 10 years in prison.

Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said that since the beginning of the war, the department has “strengthened its counteraction to the spread of calls for extremism and terrorism, riots and fake news on the Internet.” “More than 340 requests from prosecutors to block inaccurate socially significant information about SVO have been filed and satisfied, about 138,000 Internet resources have been removed or blocked,” he said. Source: Kommersant

Writer Sergey Medvedev reflects on utter disrespect for human life in Russia as a precursor for the tragedies of Grozny, Aleppo, and now Bucha and Mariupol Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel. Since the evening of April 2 nd , when the first photos from these quiet towns' streets appeared in social and conventional media, their names have become synonymous with the war crimes of Putin’s Russia.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court fined Marina Ovsyannikova, former editor of Channel One, 40,000 rubles. The reason allegedly was her post on Facebook. This is Ovsyannikova's second fine for "discrediting" the army.

Foreign electronics continues to go to Russia despite export restrictions, the report of the Royal United Institute of Defense Studies said. Specialists of the institute studied the wreckage of Russian equipment in Ukraine. They came to the conclusion that about 450 imported components from the USA, Japan, Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan are used in the latest weapons of Russia.

"Cold" calculated: there are already a dozen of them A snapshot of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky with American actress Jessica Chastein is dispersed on the Internet. "Cold" recalls what other world -class celebrities have come to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Sean Penn, who met Zelensky before the war One of the first, in February 2022, actor and director Sean Penn arrived in Ukraine.

The Desyatkinsky District Court of Chernihiv sentenced Russian tanker Mikhail Kulikov to ten years in prison and compensation of 26,600 hryvnias. In February, he fired at a residential high-rise building. According to investigators, Kulikov served under contract as a gunner in the 35th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade.

The buyer refused Ukrainian grain, en route from Odessa to the port of Tripoli in Lebanon on the Razoni vessel. The reason is the delay in the delivery of cargo by almost five months. Now "Razoni" has stopped in the south of Turkey. The grain supplier is looking for a new buyer in Lebanon or in any other country. The vessel "Razoni" is the first dry cargo ship that left Odessa as part of an agreement to unblock the Black Sea ports. There are 26,000 tons of corn on board.