FT sources report that EU foreign ministers are initiating a break in the 2007 visa facilitation agreement between Russia and the EU. This should happen at the two-day ministerial meeting starting in Prague on 30 August. “It is inappropriate for Russian tourists to walk around our cities, along our marinas. We must send a signal to the population of Russia that this war is unacceptable, ”the source quoted the publication as saying.

The musician and leader of the Crispy Newspaper group Aikhal Ammosov (real name Igor Ivanov) has been charged with “discrediting” the Russian army. The reason for this was a banner with the words Yakutian punk against war ("Yakutian punk against war") - its employees of the "E" center prevented it from being hung at a shopping center in Yakutsk before the arrival of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin for a meeting about forest fires and floods.

The two American cruisers Chancellorsville and Antietam entered the Taiwan Strait. This passage was the first since visit to Taiwan US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's in early August. Representatives of the US Navy specify that such operations usually take from eight to 12 hours. In response, this military command of the PRC announced that it would keep the troops on alert and monitor the passage of American cruisers.

The authorities of Miami (Florida) launched a program to buy weapons from the residents of the city for subsequent transfer to Ukraine. The organizers of the project are the Miami Police Department. One of the goals pursued by the initiators of the program is to reduce the number of weapons in free possession on the streets of the city. Under the terms, a Miami resident will receive a $50 gift certificate for turning in a firearm.

A prisoner from IK-4 in Plavsk (Tula region) told Mediazona that 170 volunteers recruited for service in Ukraine were taken away from the colony the night before. They can be taken to the Rostov region. The interlocutor of the publication said that volunteers were also taken from other Tula colonies - their number is unknown to him.

It became known about the strike on the Sokol plant in Novaya Kakhovka - in the photographs and videos that were distributed by local publics, clouds of smoke from the factory buildings are visible. In addition, it is reported that Russian troops were stationed in the Sokol corps at the beginning of the war. This information was confirmed to Kholod by a resident of Novaya Kakhovka.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed the death of Senior Warrant Officer Dmitry Cheremiskin, who served on the cruiser Moskva. The widow of the deceased, Nadezhda Merzlyakova, reported this to the We Can Explain edition. According to her, she received the death certificate on August 11. Previously, the senior midshipman was considered missing. Cheremiskin is the fifth confirmed death.

Try to guess what foreign words composed of two other What will happen if you add the words "son" and "air"? In the Russian language - nothing, but in Suahili you will receive a third word that will denote something completely different. But what if you combine the “hand” and “shoes”? It sounds strange, but in German a new word is born from such addition. "Cold" offers to check your flair - try to guess what composite words from foreign languages ​​mean.

A Russian Kh-59 missile hit a toilet in Novovorontsovka, Kherson region, the South Operational Command reported. Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published photos from the site, which also show the damaged tree. “A high-precision Kh-59 air-to-surface missile fired from a Su-35 targeted another public latrine on the outskirts of Novovorontsovka,” the Ukrainian military writes.