Journalist Ksenia Sobchak recorded an interview with the former Ukrainian Onlyfans -model Maria Kovalchuk, who was found in serious condition in March 2025, with numerous fractures of legs, spine and arms in Dubai. According to Kovalchuk, in the UAE capital, she came to a party at which there were Russians, Artem Papazov, Alexander Meretsalov, Maxim Krasheninnikov, Milena Dolganov, and a citizen of Belarus Alexander Laptinsky.

In an evening video, President of Ukraine, in an evening video message, said that he discussed with the Secretary of the Security Council of the country Rustema Umarov, preparing the exchange of prisoners of war and another meeting with the Russian delegation in Turkey. “Umarov reported that the meeting is planned on Wednesday [July 23]. There will be more details tomorrow, ”Zelensky said. The Russian side has not officially commented on the date of new negotiations with Ukraine.

Great Britain imposed new sanctions against Russia because of the war in Ukraine. The updated register included two legal entities - Litasco Middle East DMCC and Intervipping Services LLC. Litasco Middle East is a trade unit of the Lukoil oil company, which is based in the economic zone of Dubai Multi Commodities Center in the UAE and specializes in trade in the Asian countries, Interfax noted . Intershipping Services is a private company that is also located in the UAE.

In the city of Ivanteevka near Moscow, the roof of a residential building caught fire, the frames from the scene are published by Ren-TV and Caution, Moscow . Russian officials report every morning about dozens of downed Ukrainian drones. Today, the drone hit the roof of a multi-storey building in the capital, which is why the fire began. Because of this, collapses occur in Russian airports: today more than 200 flights were canceled , about 570 were detained.

One of the Ukrainians who tried to leave Russia to Georgia cut his neck, protesting against the refusal to let him into the country, the new newspaper Europe reports . The video published by journalists reports that the Ukrainians asked them to let them into the Duty Free zone so that they could buy water “One of the protesters revealed his throat, the interlocutors of the New-Europe said.

The Revolut European Bank warned one of the heads of FBK Leonid Volkov to close the account, the screenshot of the letter Volkov published on Twitter. The warning states that the account will be closed "in accordance with any law, order, or a court decision." Later on July 21, Volkov said that Revolut restored his account and apologized.

The prosecutor's office reported on the approval of the indictment and the ambulance to the Presnensky district court of Moscow Blogger Argepikhin, arrested on charges of extremism, extremist calls and insulting the feelings of believers. The prosecutor’s office mentions three videos: in the first, recorded on June 2 on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, Schepikhin insulted Muslims and demanded to leave Russia from them.

The Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the Luxembourg Rosa Fund in Russia, the department’s website says . According to the prosecutor’s office, the fund “implements programs and projects aimed at the formation of protest moods and radicalization of youth, discrediting state authorities of Russia”.

The security forces have opened a criminal case about the “fakes” about the Russian army (article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) on the journalist of the Rain television channel Anna Mongite, RIA Novosti and BAZA said with reference to sources. Subsequently, this was confirmed in the Investigative Committee. According to BAZA , the case was brought up on July 16 due to posts in the telegram channel of Mongait in April 2022 and July 2023, where she wrote about Russian attacks in Odessa.

The Investigative Committee brought a criminal case against the 39-year-old police major, the head of the forensic group in the city of Alapaevsk of the Sverdlovsk region, for sex with a 15-year-old girl who later became pregnant. The lawyer Sergei Samkov, representing the interests of the girl, spoke about this in his channel. The case was opened under an article on sexual intercourse with a person who has not reached the 16th anniversary (134 of the Criminal Code).

In Kamchatka, 67-year-old Ukrainian Valery Dobrovolsky was accused under Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code (confidential cooperation with a representative of a foreign state). This follows from the decisions of the Kamchatka Regional Court, in which Dobrovolsky disputed the content under house arrest, found out the Mediazona. According to the documents, the case was opened on March 26, and three days later the man was sent under house arrest.

The 2nd Eastern District Military Court in Novosibirsk sentenced to 14 years in prison of the 26-year-old taxi driver from Tajikistan Badurdurjon Akhmadaliev, accused of attempting terrorist terrorists who attacked Crocus City Hall. This was reported by the press service of the court.

In Ukraine, a member of the Party “Other Russia E. V. Limonov” Kirill UNCHUK, who was fame as a defendant in criminal cases of seizure of the foster Foreign Ministry and riots on Manezhnaya Square, was killed, the party’s telegram channel reported . As the colleague of UNCHUK conveyed, he “died immediately, without torment” as a result of an attack of a drone.

The Directorate of the Royal Palace in the Italian city of Kasert canceled the concert of the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, who was supposed to take place on July 27 as part of the Un'estate da Re . This was reported by ANSA . The publication of the agency says that the planned performance of Gergiev “caused a violent polemic”, and there were “fears regarding possible protests organized by Ukrainian associations”.

Photo: Vladimir Vasilchuk / Classmates Beatures, current torture, knocked out teeth, broken collarbone, a broken spleen - the former Ukrainian military Vladimir Vasilchuk was tortured within seven months after the detention, and then sent to prison in Yeniseisk. “Mediazon”, using the example of his story, shows what kind of Ukrainians captured in the occupied territories go. A native of the Kherson region Vladimir Vasilchuk is 46 years old.