Researchers from Yale University, using materials from open sources and satellite images, discovered 21 filtration camps in the Donbass. Their report says that Ukrainians are kept there in unsanitary conditions, there is a problem of lack of food and water. People are most often held in former schools, markets and prisons. The premises are used for detention and interrogation of civilians and prisoners of war.

In Petrozavodsk, 44-year-old prisoner Yevgeny Eremenko, who was recruited to participate in the war in Ukraine, was buried. According to Mediazona, in 2020 he was sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime colony in the case of extortion and sent to serve his term in IK-9 in Karelia. Earlier, one of the convicts from there and a local lawyer reported that it was there that prisoners were recruited for the war in Ukraine.

The Russian Embassy in Switzerland issued a statement regarding local media publications about the performance of the punk band Pussy Riot.

Alexander Lukashenko said that Belarus converted her military aircraft for the use of ammunition in nuclear equipment. According to him, we are talking about Su-24 bombers, although it was previously reported that they were removed from the armament of the Belarus Air Force back in 2012. Perhaps he talked about Su-25 attack aircraft. “We once said with Putin in St. Petersburg that we would re-engage in the Belarusian Su-24 aircraft so that they could carry nuclear weapons.

Russian volunteers for six months help Ukrainian refugees in Przemysl. Local authorities don't like it After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Poland accepted the most refugees from all European countries. A particularly large stream of people walked through the border city of Pshymisl. From the first days of the war, volunteers appeared there, who began to help tens of thousands of Ukrainians who left their native houses.

Major Sergei Chernigov, who attacked Igor Kalyapin, founder of the Committee Against Torture, was fired. A criminal case has been initiated against him. Chernigov himself accused Kalyapin of harassment, thus explaining his actions. According to human rights activist and associate of Kalyapin Eva Merkacheva, the house of the ex-head of the Committee against Torture, where the attack took place, is equipped with video cameras. Kalyapin provided all the videos to the investigation.

When and how did you find out about the recruitment of prisoners In early July, the human rights project Gulagu.net reported that the Wagner PMC was recruiting prisoners in the colonies of St. Petersburg to participate in the war against Ukraine. (both located in St. relatives of convicts serving their sentences in IK-7 Yablonevka and IK-6 Obukhovo Around the same time , Donbass as part of Wagner PMC.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accused the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov of committing war crimes in the Donbass. The SBU statement says that the service managed to collect irrefutable evidence of the crimes committed by Kadyrov, as well as the deputy head of the National Guard Department for Chechnya Daniil Martynov and the commander of the tactical group 249 OMB "South" of the Russian Guard Hussein Mezhidov.

Following the attacks in Crimea, Russia decided to withdraw six Su-35S fighter jets and four MiG-31BM interceptors from the peninsula, according to a classified NATO report leaked by Business Insider. “Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles are difficult to identify as targets for Russian air defense systems,” the report says. Russia also increased the number of tactical surface-to-air missiles in Crimea to repel possible Ukrainian drone attacks.

The leadership of the Bolshoi Theater suspended the director Alexander Molochnikov from work on the operas "Francesca da Rimini" Rachmaninov and the "Florentine tragedy" of Ceminsky. Molochnikov has not yet commented on information on the suspension of cooperation.

The Ukrainian military again managed to get on the Antonovsky bridge connecting Kherson with the left bank of the Dnieper. Eyewitnesses released videos showing explosions and a bridge shrouded in smoke. In addition, on Friday it was reported about the active work of Russian air defense in the sky over Kherson. The Ukrainian military has been shelling the Antonovsky Bridge for more than a month in order to impede the supply of the Russian group on the right bank of the river.

The Zaporozhye NPP is connected to the grid and produces electricity for Ukraine, the Ukrainian company Energoatom, which still serves Zaporozhye NPP, said. “Today, August 26, 2022, at 14:04, one of the Zaporizhzhya NPP power units stopped yesterday was connected to the power grid, the power increase continues. There are no comments on the operation of equipment and security systems,” Energoatom wrote on social networks.

Russian embassies abroad "for technical reasons" have suspended the acceptance of documents for biometric passports for a period of 10 years. The suspension of acceptance of applications for the production of international passports was reported on the websites of the Russian embassies in Turkey, Latvia, Sweden, Finland, Azerbaijan, Estonia, and Germany. At the same time, it is still possible to issue passports for five years without electronic media in the same embassies.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus opened a criminal case “on the denial of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War or the post-war period” against the Flagstaff and Zerkalo projects, which were created by part of the former TUT.BY team. The report of the Prosecutor General's Office does not indicate what caused the case.

The popular password manager LastPass has been leaked. Hackers stole the source code and closed technical information of the service. The company said that two weeks ago, attackers gained access to one of the developers' accounts. Programmers are now establishing the details of the hack, and a leading cybersecurity and forensics firm has been brought in to investigate.