Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny said that the Russian military shelled the positions of the Ukrainian military 700-800 times daily and used 40-60 thousand ammunition per day. According to him, the main efforts of the Russian army are now focused on ousting the Ukrainian military from the Donetsk region.

Nizhny Novgorod blogger and activist Alexei Onoshkin was sent to a pre-trial detention center for two months. A criminal case has been opened against him for “fake news” about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) because of a post on VKontakte about the destruction of the drama theater in Mariupol by “Russians”. Yesterday, Onoshkin's house was searched, after which he was taken for interrogation to the investigative committee.

The FSB said that it defeated a secret cell of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami terrorist group, allegedly coordinated from Ukraine, and detained six Russians. “As a result of coordinated actions by Russian FSB officers in the cities of Dzhankoy and Yalta, a conspiratorial cell of a terrorist organization consisting of six Russian citizens was neutralized,” the agency’s press service said. During a search of the detainees, they allegedly found propaganda materials for the group. Source: RIA Novosti

Roskomnadzor allocated 57.7 million rubles for the Oculus search system for prohibited content, which will analyze photos, videos, URLs, chats and posts in instant messengers. The system will be developed by Eksikyushn RDC LLC. Previously, the company did not fulfill government contracts. Oculus is going to be created by December 12, 2022.

Why did you decide to make a film about the show business of the nineties? — The country has become stuffy in the last few years. And I wanted to shoot a story about a time when it was easier to breathe - about those same “damned nineties”. Until the USSR collapsed, everyone sat still, afraid to say a word, to utter a sound. In order to somehow be involved in civilization, it was necessary to get out of the USSR: people left by any possible means. And suddenly civilization came.

In Kazan, Iskander Yasaveyev, a lecturer and columnist for Idel.Realii, and six other journalists were searched this morning. According to Tatarstan's news agency Tatar-Inform, citing unnamed sources, security officials came to all journalists because of a criminal case on justifying terrorism and violence against government officials. Journalists will also be “checked for involvement in the publication of fakes” about the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine.

A billionaire Oleg Deripaska filed a lawsuit in the Zelenograd Court of Moscow to politics Alexei Navalny, his comrades -in -arms Maria singers and George Alburov, as well as the publications of The Insider and New Lines and Associated Newspapers Limited. The reason for the lawsuit was the video “Yachts, bribes and a lover. What is the Minister of Lavrov hiding.

About 15,000 people - that's about half of the air traffic controllers working in Russia - are on "partial downtime," Sergei Kovalev, head of the Federal Trade Union of Air Traffic Controllers (FPAD), said in a letter to the Prosecutor General's Office.

In Yekaterinburg, journalist Yelena Shukaeva was detained at the exit of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court, where appeals were being considered against fines imposed on her under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On August 15, the FSB reported on the "neutralization" in the Volgograd region of two Russian citizens who, according to the agency, were trying to undermine the oil pipeline. The FSB believes that this attack was supervised by Russian Andrei Chuenkov and Ukrainian Yuri Ionov. According to the BBC Russian Service, citing Chuenkov, Ionov died in Mariupol back in March.

Alexandra Kaluzhskikh, arrested at an anti-war rally in Moscow and tortured at a police precinct, shares her story In March 2022 anti-war rally broke out on the streets of Russian cities. As the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims, 3511 protestors across Russia have been detained, 1700 of them in Moscow.

The Ukrainian military destroyed the Russian military base in New Kakhovka, reports the Office of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result of the blow, from 10 to 15 Russian military died, the same amount was injured. The Russian side has not yet commented on the blow. Photo: Denis Kazan A video appeared on the network, where the consequences of a missile attack are visible.

Russian soldier and author of a book about the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Filatiev, has left Russia, said Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the human rights project Gulagu.net. “The Gulagu.net team managed to help paratrooper Pavel Filatiev leave the territory of the Russian Federation and evacuate him before being detained. Operatives of the DVKR FSB and the FSB for Moscow and the Moscow Region were unable to detain Pavel and send him into custody on fake criminal cases.

The military commissariat of the Smolensk region held a "scheduled training" on the delivery of subpoenas to citizens in the reserve. Also, stations and headquarters for alerting districts and rural settlements were deployed in the region.

Several Russian villages were filled with volunteers who came to the exercises before being sent to Ukraine. Local people are not happy In several regions of Russia over the past weeks, volunteers are actively recruited to send them to the war with Ukraine. Volunteers are offered a high salary, and a little requirements for them are presented - you do not need either combat experience, or even a complete secondary education.