The top 100 Western companies that remained in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine increased their net profit in the country by 54% in 2022 - a total of 1.1 trillion rubles. This is stated in a study by Novaya Gazeta Europe based on the financial statements of legal entities registered in Russia, which are partially or wholly owned by foreign companies. In 2022, with the share of Western companies in Russian business, 288 billion rubles in income tax were paid to the Russian budget.

The alcohol for the surrogate alcoholic drink “Mr. Cider,” which caused the deaths of 33 people in Russian regions, was stolen from the warehouse of the Center for Economic and Service Support of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region, the ministry reported . “This batch has been stored in a warehouse since 2012, after it was seized during inspection activities,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs said in a press release.

Updated (18:58 Moscow time): Added information about the video with a knocked -on Leopard tank. On the night of June 8, Russian “military commissars” and wire telegram channels wrote about the beginning of the APU in the Zaporizhzhya region. It is reported about attacks on several areas in Zaporozhye, the place of the main blow - near Orekhov, in the area of ​​the village of Malaya Tokmachka.

One of the first sanctions imposed on Russia, along with the freezing of gold and foreign exchange reserves, was a ban on the supply of many goods and technologies.

Updated (16:30 Moscow time): Added a refutation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine about the deceased in Kherson. The title has been changed. The number of applications for the evacuation of people from Aleshki and surroundings occupied by Russian troops increased almost half as less than a day. The map shows more than 1300 messages.

Employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies and the army began to work with the elimination of the consequences on the occupied shore of the Dnieper. As the coordinator of the group of volunteers Yaroslav Vasiliev told “important stories”, the Russian security forces prevent the volunteers from saving people. According to him, in the morning, Nizhnyaya Street was blocked in Aleshki. “We sent five boats there, the guys sailed, they turned them around.

Russian “war correspondents” report a night offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye region - in the direction from Orekhov to occupied Tokmak. According to the WarGonzo telegram channel, founded by “military correspondent” Semyon Pegov, by 7:00 Moscow time, Ukrainian infantry “caught on the front edge” of Russian positions. Up to 120 armored vehicles were allegedly involved in the operation.

Three people died in occupied Aleshki as a result of flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, said the legal mayor of the city, Yevgeny Rishchuk. According to him, the settlement is flooded by 90%. The day before, residents of Aleshki told “Important Stories” what was happening in the city of the destruction of the hydroelectric power station.

The TOP-100 Western companies that remained in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 increased net profit in the country by 54%-in total to 1.1 trillion rubles. This is stated in the study by Novaya Gazeta Europe on the basis of financial reporting of legal entities registered in Russia, which partially or completely belong to foreign companies. In 2022, with a share of Western companies in Russian business, 288 billion rubles of income tax were paid to the Russian budget.

Three people, including one child, were killed Wednesday evening as a result of Russian shelling in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk region, said local authorities . Five more people were injured, four of them children. 14 high-rise buildings and two private houses were damaged. Also at night, the Russians fired artillery and mortars at the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions; no casualties were reported. In one of the villages of the Sumy region, were damaged .