TV presenter Ivan Urgant spoke about the cancellation of his performance at the festival of the charity foundation "Anton is Here" in St. Petersburg on August 21. The organizers announced Urgant’s participation in the festival under his alter ego “Grisha Urgant” on August 1, after the main line-up had already been announced . Urgant's name is currently missing from the event's website. However, their Instagram still has a hand-drawn portrait of a man who looks like the artist.

Residents of Russia have begun receiving mass text messages calling on them to sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense. This was reported by readers of the publications Meduza and Sota . "Sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense: from 800 thousand rubles and benefits right away. Call 117!" the newsletter says. The hotline for volunteers operates at the short number 117, it was launched in the spring of 2023.

From April to June 2024, Russian banks issued 45.8 thousand new delayed loans for volunteers who went to fight in Ukraine. This is evidenced by the fresh data of the Central Bank, to which the Mediazona drew attention to. All participants in the invasion of Ukraine (including contractors and mobilized) are the right to credit delay, but such a delay cannot be taken on a loan, which was taken after sending to war. This means that most of these applications are now filling out volunteers.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported a nighttime drone attack from the Ukrainian side. According to the report , more than 70 drones were shot down or intercepted, most of them in the Rostov, Oryol, Kursk, and Belgorod regions. It is unknown how many were produced in total. In Orel, in the Bolkhovsky microdistrict in the northern suburbs, two drones hit a 16-story building on Yablonevaya Street.