Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed him of his intention to step down on July 13. Representatives of Rajapaksa did not confirm this by the time the news was published. The announcement came after thousands of protesters stormed the residence and office of Sri Lanka's president on July 9, demanding his resignation. Rajapaksa himself was, according to media reports, evacuated in advance.

Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Dmitry Steshin said that two Azov fighters were sentenced to death in the self-proclaimed DPR. Other sources do not report this yet. “Fox (Konstantin Nikitenko) - drove around Mariupol in an armored personnel carrier and shot at people, for fun, for fun. <…> Frost is the author of the Dance-Kill channel. He shot captured marines, sneered at the bodies,” wrote Steshin. Messages about the intention of the DPR to shoot "Fox" and "Frost" appeared in June.

We tell you that the assault on the Presidential Palace of thousands of protesters preceded Dinuka Liyanawatte / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Protesters who captured the presidential office in Colombo. July 9, 2022 Sri Lanka has long-standing problems with the economy, but in recent days the situation has escalated to such an extent that on July 9, thousands of protesters captured the residence and office of the president, demanding his resignation.

In the largest city, Sri Lanka Colombo, protesters broke into the house of Prime Minister Ranil Vikramasinghe and set fire to him. It is reported by BBC with reference to an employee of his office. Where Vikramasingha is located is unknown. Earlier, he announced his readiness to resign - this was preceded by the capture of thousands of protesting residence and the office of the president of the country. Update.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Andriy Melnyk, Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany, from his post. The corresponding decree is published on its website. Zelensky also fired Ukraine's ambassadors to Hungary, the Czech Republic, Norway and India. Andriy Melnyk has been the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany since 2014.

The governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz, said that an explosive device went off on the railway between the settlements of Robchik and Peschanka in the Unechsky district. According to Bogomaz, as a result, no one was injured and the tracks were not damaged. The explosion damaged the windows of the driver's cab of the freight train, the governor said.

In Sri Lanka, where the difficult economic situation has been preserved for many months, thousands of protesters gathered in the largest city in the country of Colombo and seized the residence and office of President Gotabai Rajapaks. The police tried to stop them using tear gas and shooting the air, but the demonstrators broke through the cordon and broke into the buildings. President Sri Lanka, according to the media, is evacuated and is under the protection of the military.

Tetsuya Yamagami, a suspect in the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, explained his actions as revenge against a religious group from which his family allegedly suffered. This is reported by The Asahi , The Mainichi , Kyodo News and The Japan Times , citing sources close to the investigation . The name of the organization is not mentioned in publications.

Burning fields in the east of Ukraine. An exhibition of Ukrainian equipment in Lisichansk captured by Russia. The consequences of shelling in Seversk and Kramatorsk On July 8, the Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov was sentenced to seven years for statements about the war in Ukraine. The embassy of Great Britain in Moscow has a pointer "Square of the Lugansk People's Republic". In Kyiv, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine met with the commander of the British army.

The Ukrainian musician, whom the British met on the Vistula embankment, entered the stage The Coldplay group at a concert in Warsaw performed the song “Ocean Elsa” “Obimimi” along with the Ukrainian musician Romario Punch . Romario Punch performed the main vocal part. Coldplay leader Chris Martin joined him in chorims. “This is a very beautiful song. I do not understand her, but I will sing her, ”Martin said before execution.

In Sri Lanka, protesters, requiring the resignation of the head of state Gotabai Rajapax, broke into the residence and the office of the country's president. Rajapax, reportedly is in a safe place, reports BBC. Shots appeared in the media how protesters swim in the presidential pool. According to the BBC, thousands of protesters arrived in the largest city in the country of Colombo. They broke through several police cordons on the way to the Rajapax residence.

Actor Tony Siriko, who played Polityari in the Soprano clan, died at the age of 79. This was reported by his family. Getty images Siriko starred in dozens of films, often playing gangsters. One of the most famous films with his participation is Martin Skorsze's Glorious Guys. Before the acting career, Siriko, who grew up in Brooklyn, was arrested dozens of times, including for attacks and robbery. He spent 20 months in prison.

Mario Tama / Getty Images Ilon Musk on July 8 officially announced the refusal to buy Twitter, liability of responsibility for disrupting the transaction on the company. According to the documents submitted by representatives of the mask to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the leadership of Twitter allegedly violated their agreements and misleads the mask during negotiations.

Artdocfest Medusa continues a series of publications on documentaries, which during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine become even more relevant and more important. Every weekend film critic Anton Dolin talks about one documentary tape; These are both new films and released several years ago. We do not plan to limit ourselves to Ukrainian and Russian authors, but all these paintings can be viewed online. The film of this week is “Wait! The passage is prohibited by "Sergey Khazov-Cassia.