Updated . Andriy Smirnov, deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine , said that Ivan Bakanov and Irina Venediktova were not fired, but so far they were only removed from their positions. According to him, Volodymyr Zelensky, after internal checks, will decide whether to send submissions on the dismissal of officials to the Verkhovna Rada.

EFREM LUKATSKY / AP / Scanpix / Leta on July 17 in Ukraine buried the dead due to a missile strike on Vinnitsa . The Russian military fired at the city on July 14 - 24 people were killed, including three children. In Vinnitsa (in the photo) they said goodbye to Lisa Dmitrieva, a four -year -old girl with Down Syndrome, who died near the House of Life "Yubileiny".

Update: Lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, who represents Marina Ovsyannikova, told Meduza that a report was filed against her under Article 20.3.3. of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces, which provides for a fine of 30,000 to 50,000 rubles). According to Mediazona , the reason for the report was Ovsyannikova’s statements near the Basmanny Court on July 13 ( a video of her statement was published by pro-Kremlin blogger Ilias Merkouri).

British citizen, paramedic of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment John Harding was taken prisoner by Russia during the war in Ukraine, BBC News reports. Harding was captured in May 2022 in Mariupol, when the Ukrainian military, who were at the Azovstal plant, were forced to surrender to Russian troops. This became known from a video in which Harding asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for help and said that he was facing the death penalty.

Seven Russian contract soldiers from Buryatia said that the command began to threaten them when they wrote reports refusing to fight in Ukraine. This, as reported by Mediazona , is stated in an audio recording that was given to the publication by the head of the Free Buryatia Foundation, Alexandra Garmazhapova. All the soldiers served in the 11th Separate Guards Airborne Assault Brigade (military unit No. 32364, stationed in Ulan-Ude).

Brief retelling The war began through the fault of the oligarchs. All wars occur due to money and redistribution of spheres of influence. The oligarchs earn in the war, and ordinary people only die. So that people go to war, they are processed by propaganda - and the oligarch media holdings make a movie that divides the enemy and glorifies their own.

Due to sanctions, Russia has experienced a shortage of veterinary drugs needed for traveling abroad with pets, Mediazona reports. In large chain pet stores "Bethoven" and "4 paws" rabies vaccines certified abroad under the brands Nobivac, Eurican, Feligen and Purevax have disappeared from sale. These drugs are needed to obtain an international veterinary passport. Vaccines produced in Russia are not suitable for this.

Katerina Gordeeva’s film “Man and War” was released. Residents of Mariupol, Kyiv, Buchi and other cities tell how Russia destroyed their life Katerina Gordeeva released the film "Man and War." She talked with the Ukrainians who became direct witnesses of the war - in the filming the residents of Mariupol, Buchi, Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkov, Volnovakh, Gostel and other cities took part in the filming.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Wagner's mercenaries returned to the war in the Donbass - for this, Evgeny Prigozhin, probably received the star of the Hero of Russia. Says Lilia Yapparova The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation often talks about mercenaries and volunteers in the war in Ukraine.

Answers Koreheved Fedor Tertitsky Valery Sharifulolin / TASS Kim Jong -un and Vladimir Putin during admission on the territory of the Far Eastern Federal University on the island of Russian. April 25, 2019 This week, North Korea officially recognized the independence of the self -proclaimed "republics" of Donbass, and the LPR, apparently, with some delay. The DPRK became the third UN country that did this after Russia and Syria.

Russia has lost more than 30% of its ground offensive potential during the war in Ukraine, said the UK Chief of the Defence Staff, Admiral Tony Radakin. According to him, in almost five months of fighting, 50,000 Russian soldiers were either killed or wounded, and about 1,700 Russian tanks and almost 4,000 armored combat vehicles were destroyed. For this reason, the commander of the British Armed Forces said, the Ukrainian army is fully confident that it will win the war.

Deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev stated that in the event of an attack on Crimea, Judgment Day will come for Ukraine. According to Interfax, Medvedev said this at a meeting with veterans of the Great Patriotic War, which took place in Volgograd on the anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Billionaire Roman Abramovich, against whom the European Union imposed sanctions because of the war in Ukraine, said that the European authorities should compensate for the damage caused to him. According to The Wall Street Journal, Abramovich said this in a lawsuit in which he demanded that the restrictions imposed on him be lifted.

A pensioner from the Vologda Oblast demanded on VKontakte "stop the fratricidal war" Page Nikolai Smyslyaev in VKontakte On May 31, the Vologda pensioner and war veteran in Afghanistan Nikolai Smyslyaev was fined 30 thousand rubles for writing on VKontakte comments “No War!” And he called for "stop the fratricidal war." With the participation of the Vologda branch of Yabloko, the pensioner managed to raise money for a fine - and “by inertia” he was sent 14 thousand.

Russian military has destroyed a HIMARS multiple launch rocket system in Ukraine's Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry claims.