Relatives and a friend of Captain Stanislav Rzhitsky, who was killed in Krasnodar, said that he retired from the army before the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine. So, Rzhitsky’s father told the Baza telegram channel that his son filed a report for dismissal from the Russian Armed Forces in December 2021. According to him, the document was signed immediately, but the dismissal procedure was long and ended only in August 2022.

France will transfer Scalp long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine. This, according to the French TV channel BFMTV, was stated by French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the NATO summit in Vilnius. He noted that these missiles allow "strike in depth." The Kremlin has already called this decision of Paris "erroneous." “It remains to be clarified and figured out exactly what radius we are talking about.

In Russia, an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to operate, according to which it is forbidden for those who evade military service to drive vehicles. The document is published on the portal of legal information. Such measures will be applied to those liable for military service who did not come to the military registration and enlistment office within 20 days.

The Voronezh and Rostov regions are planning to unite with the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics to form the Donbass community. This was announced by the Department of Economic Development of the Voronezh Region in its telegram channel. They clarified that the presidium of the government of the Voronezh region has already approved a draft agreement on combining the industrial, scientific, educational, cultural and tourism potentials of the regions.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky was dissatisfied with the reaction of NATO member countries to Ukraine's application to join the alliance. “Now, on the way to Vilnius, we have received signals that language without Ukraine is being discussed. <...> Unprecedented and absurd - when there is no time frame for both the invitation (!), And for the membership of Ukraine; and when some strange wording about “conditions” is added even for inviting Ukraine,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

In Russia, acquittals in courts have become even less common. This is because the judges really don’t want to admit the mistakes of the security forces Russian courts had almost never given acquittals before, and after the start of the war, only two thousand people were found innocent (out of 614 thousand cases!).

Historian Ilya Venyavkin explains what the contents of the mansion of Evgeny Prigozhin are talking about Two weeks after Evgeny Prigozhin announced the “march of justice” and his end, an attempt to arrest the Wagner PMC armed rebellion continues to determine what is happening in Russian politics in many ways - and experts and political scientists are trying to explain what, in fact, happened on June 24.

The words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the absence of a deadline for Ukraine's admission to NATO is "unprecedented and absurd" surprised the participants in the alliance's summit in Vilnius. about it . writes Politico “I am critical of many aspects, especially the position of some of the allies, but I think this is an ill-conceived and unfair approach,” the publication quoted a senior diplomat from Central Europe as saying.

The European Court of Human Rights declared the investigation into the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov ineffective. The corresponding decision is published on the website of the court. The judges of the ECHR ruled that the Russian security forces did not investigate all the circumstances of the murder of Nemtsov - in particular, they ignored the political motives of the crime and did not contact his customers.

The State Duma Committee on Health recommended the adoption in the second reading of a bill banning transgender transition. about it Write RIA Novosti. In particular, the health committee of the lower house of parliament approved an amendment that provides for the annulment of marriage if one of the spouses has made a transgender transition. It is assumed that changes will be made to article 16 of the Family Code, which describes the conditions for terminating a marriage.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu commented on the supply of American cluster munitions to Kyiv. Quotes from his speech were published by the RIA Novosti agency. “If the United States supplies cluster munitions to Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces will be forced to use similar weapons against the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a response,” Shoigu said.

The former mayor of Nizhny Novgorod and current State Duma deputy Vadim Bulavinov attacked his ex-wife Nadezhda and broke her nose. the agency "Nizhniy Says" about this . told Her lawyer Nikita Kubasov According to him, on the morning of July 3, the cleaner Bulavinova called Nadezhda and said that he ordered her personal belongings to be thrown out of the house where they had previously lived together. “Nadezhda came to pick up her things.

The Investigative Committee will not open a criminal case against a police officer who watched his colleague torture a detainee with a stun gun. This is reported by the “Team against torture”. According to human rights activists, the investigator Demina, who was checking their application, did not find corpus delicti in the actions of policeman Ilya Sokolov. According to Demina, Sokolov has already been brought to disciplinary responsibility for inaction and this is “sufficient punishment”.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden's bid to join NATO. this on Twitter . announced Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, “President Erdogan agreed to send the protocol on Sweden's accession to NATO to Parliament as soon as possible and ensure its ratification. This is a historic step that makes all allies stronger and safer,” he wrote. The Turkish parliament may approve Sweden's bid at its autumn session, which begins on October 1.

Czech President Petr Pavel is convinced that Ukraine has only until the end of the year to achieve success at the front. After that, he said, the window of opportunity "will more or less close." This, according to the New York Times, he said during the NATO summit in Vilnius. “Whatever is achieved by the end of this year will be the starting point for negotiations,” he said.