The mercenaries from Deripaska Igor Sergienko with the call sign Shershen came to fight in Ukraine as a Wagner Group mercenary back in 2014: “They called us ‘they’re-not-there’ back then,” he recalls in a conversation with IStories. Then he was in Syria — “participated in the capture of Palmyra,” and in 2022 returned to Ukraine, first as part of the private military company (PMC) Redut, and now as a platoon commander in the Sokol battalion.

This Story is Also Available in English Geere Falcon from Deripaska Igor Sergienko has a call sign. He arrived in Ukraine Wagnerist back in 2014: “We were called“ They are not there, ”he recalls in a conversation with“ important stories ”. Then he visited Syria - “participated in the capture of Palmyra”, and in 2022 he returned to Ukraine, first as part of the Redut PMC, and now as a platoon commander in the Sokol battalion.

The number of civilians who died during the war in Ukraine reached 9369 people, the UN Human Rights of Human Rights (OHCHR), published on the eve of the Department of the Supreme Commissioner of the UN Rights, said. 7283 people died in the territories controlled by the Ukrainian authorities, 2086 - in the occupied territories. From July 1 to 30, 143 civilians, including four children, became victims of the war.

Updated (21:17 Moscow time): Added information about the arson in Moscow and Stavropol. The title has been changed July 31 and August 1 in Russia there were at least 12 attempts to arson military commissariats. Several arsonists took this step, becoming, according to them, victims of telephone scammers. “Important stories” have collected all cases of arson of military enlistment offices over the past two days. Omsk.

On the evening of August 1, an explosion occurred in the vicinity of Sevastopol, local communities said. “In the Kara-Koba area, according to preliminary data, the UAV is shot down,” wrote Mikhail Razvozhaev, governor of the annexed Sevastopol appointed by Russia. He claims that only grass and shrubs lit up on the spot. Real damage from the blow is still unknown. Locals report that the explosion occurred near the village of Sugar head.

The Ukrainian drone again attacked the Moscow City business center-he hit the same tower that suffered from Dron on Sunday, said Sergei Sobyanin. The facade is damaged at the level of the 21st floor, there are no victims. TASS notes that we are talking about the IQ quarter skyscraper, where the offices of several ministries are located. According to the 112 telegram channel, the Ministry of Economic Development is located on the 21st floor.

The Sergiev Posad City Court sentenced associates of neo-Nazi Maxim “Tesak” Martsinkevich to terms of eight to 15 years in a general regime colony for ethnic murders in the 2000s, TASS reports . Andrei Kyle and Semyon Tokmakov received 15 and 13 years in prison, respectively. Tokmakov was the founder of the Russian Target group (the youth militant cell of the People's National Party) and in the late 1990s and early 2000s he was one of the most famous Nazi skinheads in Moscow.

50 thousand Ukrainians lost one or more limbs during the war with Russia, are evaluated by the assessments of the German manufacturer of Ottobock prostheses, which are written by The Wall Street Journal. The analysis of OTTOBOCK is based on data from the government and medical facilities, it is about both military and civilians. 7-year-old gymnast Sasha Pascal lost her leg under the Russian shelling of the Odessa region in May 2022.