Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed confidence that the missile attack on the shopping center in Kremenchug was carried out "on reconnoitered targets." Answering questions from journalists in Ashgabat, Putin said that the Ukrainian military is placing equipment in "residential areas, somewhere else" and also "hiding" it "in all sorts of hangars, markets," and the Russian military strikes at these facilities, and not for civilian purposes.

In New York, a court sentenced singer R Kelly to 30 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of women and underage girls. The jury found him guilty in September 2021. He faced life imprisonment. R Kelly intends to appeal, his lawyers said. According to Reuters, he is accused in several other cases, including those related to child pornography. Meduza wrote in detail about the accusations against the singer.

On June 29, the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on June 29 published a photograph of the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine. In the picture, soldiers built before the exchange are visible - but it was not specified where exactly the photo was taken and exactly on it - Ukrainians or Russians. According to Medusa, the picture was taken in the village of Kamenskoye, Zaporizhzhya region, which is under the control of Ukraine.

The Department of Culture of Moscow on the evening of June 29 announced a change in the heads of several Moscow theaters. At the Gogol Center, Anton Yakovlev and Alexander Bocharnikov will replace Alexei Agranovich and Alexei Kabeshev as artistic director and director, reports TASS . Agranovich was appointed Artistic Director in 2021 to replace Kirill Serebrennikov. Serebrennikov commented on this news with the words “Yes. Gogol Center is closed. All".

On June 29, the monitoring mission of the UN Human Rights Office published a report on human rights violations during the war in Ukraine. The report reflects data collected from February 24 to May 15, 2022. During this period, in particular, members of the monitoring mission received information about the killings of more than 300 civilians, allegedly committed by the Russian military outside of hostilities.

Kirill Serebrennikov commented on the news about the change in the management of the Gogol Center by saying that this theater is “closed.” According to the former artistic director of the Gogol Center, the authorities decided to close the theater “for its position,” “for honesty,” “for an attempt at freedom,” and “for the fact that all the months that the war has been going on… the actors, protesting against the war, do not come out to take bows, ending each performance with the image of a dove

NATO summit in Madrid. Main Gabriel Bouys / AFP / Scanpix / Leta President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stands on video communications at the NATO summit in Madrid. June 29, 2022 NATO countries at a summit in Madrid approved a new strategic concept of the alliance until 2030. Russia in it is called the most “significant and immediate threat”, and China is noted as a country whose politics challenges the “interests, security and values” of the alliance.

The OVD-Info project did not record any arrests in Russia for an anti-war position on only one day since February 24: June 13. The war in Ukraine is in its 126th day. According to OVD-Info, during the war there were arrests for street protests almost every day, except for four days.

Jose Jimenez / Press Service of the Royal House of Spain / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta at the NATO summit in Madrid's spouses of the heads of state and governments of the alliance countries took a joint photo in the Korolev Sofia art center before the picture of Termnik Pablo Picasso. Picasso wrote it in 1937. The picture is dedicated to the bombing of the city of Termnik during the Civil War in Spain.

In Moscow, a court has remanded in custody lawyer Dmitry Talantov, who is defending journalist Ivan Safronov . A criminal case has been opened against Talantov under Part 2 of Article 207.3 on the dissemination of “knowingly false information” about the use of Russian armed forces. The case was triggered by a Facebook post with references to war crimes that Russian soldiers are accused of.

The European Union is discussing possible ways to allow Russia to deliver sanctioned cargo through the European territory to the Kaliningrad region, Reuters writes, citing two sources.

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The Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine stated that 144 Ukrainian servicemen were released during the exchange of prisoners. According to a press release, among them are 95 people who were defending at the Azovstal plant, including 43 fighters of the Azov regiment. Most of the liberated Ukrainians have severe injuries: gunshot and shrapnel wounds, explosive injuries, burns, fractures, limb amputations.

Syria has decided to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. This was reported by the Syrian agency SANA, citing an "official source" in the country's Foreign Ministry. “By embodying the common will and desire to improve relations in all areas, the Syrian Arab Republic has decided to recognize the independence and sovereignty of both the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic,” the SANA interlocutor said.