Ukrainian drones attacked the village of Kurkovichi in the Bryansk region, the region's governor, Alexander Bogomaz, reported . According to him, three people were injured: the head of the Starodubsky municipal district, Alexander Podolny, a fire and rescue service employee, and the driver. All the victims were hospitalized. Bogomaz said that a drone dropped a bomb on the village, and a residential building caught fire.

Valery Zaitsev (left) and Nikita Turlaev (right). Art: Maria Tolstova / Mediazona Valery Zaitsev, a ninth-grader from a village in the Russian Far East, was raised by his grandparents after his mother was stripped of parental rights and his father passed away. The teenager was distressed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and frequently spoke out against the war. A year ago, the FSB detained Valery directly from the tuberculosis dispensary where he had been receiving treatment for several months.

The publisher of the Altai newspaper Listok, Sergei Mikhailov, gave his final statement in the Gorno-Altai City Court, which is considering his criminal case on military "fakes". The recording of the journalist's speech was published on the Listok Telegram channel.

The Odessa District Court of the Omsk Region has given a suspended sentence of one and a half years to 70-year-old Anastasia Gordienko, accused of "discrediting" the Russian army due to anti-war comments. This was reported by OVD-Info, citing her lawyer Andrei Ognev. The woman was also given a two-year probationary period and banned from administering websites for three years. The prosecutor's office requested two years in a general regime penal colony for the pensioner.

The Moscow City Court has overturned the ruling of the Juvenile Affairs Commission on administrative punishment for Muscovite Alexandra K., who was given a warning "for improper performance of parental duties" after her husband beat her in front of her children. This was reported by the Consortium of Women's Non-Governmental Associations. The woman had been subjected to domestic violence for several years until she decided to divorce her abuser.

During today's visit to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said that due to fighting with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in border areas there is a risk of a nuclear accident, Reuters reports . "The danger or possibility of a nuclear accident arose not far from here," the agency quotes Grossi as saying. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency noted that the Kursk station is very fragile because it does not have a protective dome.

The FSB Directorate for Tambov Oblast reported the detention of a local resident born in 1992 who, according to security officials, was planning to sabotage the railway. TASS and local publications wrote about this, citing the agency's press service. According to the FSB, the man corresponded with an unknown person who offered him a reward to damage the railway infrastructure in the Tambov region.

RTVI released an investigation into the unknown Banknota LLC, which, according to SPARK, was in third place among Russian companies in terms of revenue last year, behind only Rosneft and Gazprom. Banknota was registered only in June 2023, but according to reports, it managed to earn 3.7 trillion rubles during this time, and its net profit amounted to 3.4 trillion rubles. This, as RTVI calculated, is 8.5% of Russia's budget or 22% of the country's entire retail lending market.

In the Voronezh region, the authorities have suggested that private clinics “voluntarily refuse” to perform abortions at the request of a woman. This was reported on the regional government’s Telegram channel. The authorities proposed to refuse artificial termination of pregnancy at will as part of the discussion of abortion prevention in the Voronezh Region. The clinic must make a decision by September 1.

The Maykop Garrison Military Court sentenced Sh., a 34-year-old resident of Belorechensk, Krasnodar Krai, to 23 years in a strict regime penal colony. He is accused of sexualized violence against his own daughter, under 14, and unauthorized abandonment of his unit for more than a month during mobilization. This was reported by the joint press service of the courts of Adygea.

The online payment service CloudPayments, owned by T-Bank, has disabled donations to Such Causes without explanation. Mediazona was informed about this in the publication itself. The editorial statement says that on August 13, “Takiye Dela” received a notice from CloudPayments that it was terminating the contract under which it accepted all private donations from the publication’s supporters. The service announced that it would disable all old donations and stop accepting new ones.

The Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced 21-year-old local resident Alexandra Karaseva to 1.5 years in a penal colony under the article on "obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights or the work of election commissions" by a group of persons (clause "b" of part 2 of article 141 of the Criminal Code). This was reported the day before by the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg. On April 15, the first day of the presidential elections, Karaseva came to School No.

11 residents of the Belgorod region were injured due to shelling of the region by the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours. This was reported by Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to the head of the region, the victims include three residents of the village of Kosilovo, a man and a woman from the village of Repyakhovka, and six Shebekino residents. Kosilovo and Repyakhova were previously attacked by drones, and Shebekino was also shelled by Ukrainian troops.

The FSB reported on the initiation of criminal cases against Deutsche Welle correspondent Nicholas Simon Connolly and Ukrainian journalist of the 1+1 TV channel Natalia Nagornaya. RIA Novosti and TASS write about this with reference to the FSB Public Relations Center. Connolly and Nagornaya are accused of illegally crossing the Russian border by a group of people by prior conspiracy (Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code).

At night, the Russian army shelled Krivoy Rog - one of the missiles hit a local hotel, two people were killed and five more were injured. This was reported by the head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional military administration, Serhiy Lysak. Lysak also writes that the deceased were a man and a woman. The victims received injuries of varying severity, two of them were hospitalized. According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, five people were rescued, two more people may be under the rubble.