Ukraine will seek to ensure that relatives of Russians participating in the war fall under the sanctions. This was stated in an interview with Novoye Vremya by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak. I want every soldier who sets foot on our soil today, his relatives, his children, his family, to also be on the lists for sanctions. They should know that if you came to kill Ukrainians, your children should not go to study in civilized countries.

Ukrainian comedian Felix Redka on telling jokes to a war-weary country 24-year-old Felix Redka lives with his family in Sumy, Ukraine, near the Russia border. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Redka’s job was arranging Russian comedians’ shows in Ukraine; he would also perform himself. In late March 2022, when there were still Russian troops stationed in his town, Redka and two other comedians arranged a standup comedy show in a Sumy bomb shelter.

In the UK on July 19, a historical maximum temperature was recorded. In Coningsby, Lincolnshire, the air warmed up to 40.3 degrees Celsius. The previous national record - 38.7 degrees Celsius - was recorded in July 2019 in Cambridge. On July 19, 2022, he was beaten at once in 34 settlements, the British weather service reported. Fires broke out around London due to extreme heat. In particular, fires were reported on the Dartford Heath.

Rosleskhoz announced the introduction of a state of emergency at the federal level due to forest fires in Yakutia and the Khabarovsk Territory, TASS reports. The introduction of the state of emergency, explained the head of Rosleskhoz Ivan Sovetnikov, allows, according to a simplified procedure, to consider the issue of attracting additional forces from neighboring regions, as well as the Russian Emergencies Ministry.

Journalists launched a project on regional media during censorship. It was actually introduced in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine Journalists of the St. Petersburg publication Paper, Tomsk News Agency TS2 and the editor-22 project launched the project “Who answered for words” ( channel on Yetube , an Instagram account- @za.slova ), which tells what is happening with the Russian regional media after the start of the war in Ukraine.

A 28-year-old Swedish citizen, who previously served in the Air Force unit stationed in Uppsala, with the rank of lieutenant, died in the combat zone in Donbass. According to Swedish Television (SVT), he died from a chest wound from a grenade explosion. Other details, including the name of the deceased, have not yet been disclosed.

The Chinese social network Xiaohongshu, which can be called an analogue of Instagram , prohibits the use of 563 words and phrases related to the Chairman of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. The list of such banned words is contained in a report of the social network, which was intended for internal use, but journalists managed to get acquainted with it. The publication Vice gives only three such words as an example: “Adolf Sitler”, “ Winnie The Poo ”, “CoronaSi”.

Yuriy Nikolaev, who lives in Gostomel, Kiev region, told Mediazona that Russian military personnel, who occupied this settlement for several weeks, took all the equipment from his apartment and the apartments of his neighbors. In one of the apartments, according to him, the military was unable to open the door, so they broke the wall.

An administrative protocol was drawn up against the deputy of the legislative assembly of the Primorsky Territory, Leonid Vasyukevich, on the “discrediting” of the army, Kommersant writes, citing the case file of the Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok. The beginning of the consideration of the administrative case is scheduled for July 20.

This is what you need to know about candidates Jonathan Hordle / ITV / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Debata with the participation of candidates for the post of leader of the Conservative Party. From left to right: Rishi Sunak, Liz Tracers, Tom Tigendhat and Penny Mordont.

Gazprom will resume pumping fuel through the Nord Stream gas pipeline on Thursday, July 21, in accordance with the scheduled work schedule. This was reported to Reuters by two sources familiar with the gas supply plans. However, according to the interlocutors of the agency, the volume of deliveries will be less than 160 million cubic meters per day, which this gas pipeline is designed for.

Sergey Savostyanov / Reuters / Scanpix LETA Vladimir Putin arrived in Tehran on Tuesday, July 19, making his first trip outside the former Soviet Union since he launched Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February. (Putin visited Tajikistan and Turkmenistan back in June.) The Russian president met with Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi (pictured above) and he is set to meet with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan later in the day.

Ukrainian Air Force Colonel Oleg Makarchuk , who died on July 14 in Vinnitsa, and the commander of the Russian 20th Motorized Rifle Division, Guards Colonel Alexei Gorobets , who died on July 9, studied together at the Minsk Suvorov Military School. This information, posted on the school's graduates' website, was noticed by Mediazona journalist Maksim Litavrin.

The Tambov Regional Court rejected the prosecutor's appeal and upheld the decision to release 68-year-old Petr Parpulov, convicted in a treason case. His daughter Yulia told OVD-Info about this. Former air traffic controller Petr Parpulov was arrested in 2014 and two years later sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony. According to the investigation, in 2010, Parpulov went on holiday to Georgia, where he passed classified information to a representative of a foreign state.

Photo Sergey Savostyanov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran on July 19. For Putin, this is the first visit to the borders of the countries of the former USSR after the start of the war. In June, he visited Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. In Tehran, a summit of countries - guarantors of the Syrian settlement - the Russian Federation, Iran and Turkey takes place.