An interview with a police officer who was fired for allegedly refusing to open cases of "fakes" and "discrediting" the army. As short as possible This is a rough retelling of an interview conducted by Astra with former Center E employee Kirill Belousov, who was fired for violations in the consideration of complaints about "fakes" about the war and "discrediting" the military. The words, written in the first person, are not necessarily conveyed verbatim. I don't need the glory of a hero.

Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of intentional shelling of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant - the largest in Europe. According to the Magate, the situation "completely out of control" Russian military near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, August 4, 2022 On August 5, the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, captured by the Russian troops at the beginning of the war, was shelling. Russia accused Ukraine of attack, Ukraine - Russia.

Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti / TASS At the end of July, a team of management researchers from the United States published a report entitled "Business Care and sanctions to cripple the Russian economy." Since the beginning of the war, the same team has been working on the Yale List -it lists hundreds of international companies that have ceased activities in Russia because of the war and sanctions, as well as those that preferred to stay.

Sergio Flores / Getty images Alex Jones at a demonstration demanding to cancel coronavirus restrictions. Austin, Texas, April 18, 2020 In the United States, a trial over the famous radio host and a ultra -right conspiracy the right to Alex Jones ended. Parents of the children who died during the shooting in the elementary school of the Sandi-Khuk district in 2012 filed a lawsuit to slander Jones, who repeatedly denied the very fact of this tragedy.

Vitaly Gura, deputy head of the "new administration" of Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, died as a result of an assassination attempt. This was stated in the "new administration" of the Kherson region. The assassination attempt on Guru became known in the morning of August 6th. was reported He to have been shot several times in his home. RIA Novosti showed a video shot, presumably, in a private house with traces of blood in the hallway.

In Kalmykia, in correctional colony No. 2, two prisoners attacked the employees of the colony, killing one person and injuring seven, the regional department of the UK reports. According to the statement of the investigation, on the evening of August 5, the criminals attacked two employees of the colony with a “sharpened plate” and “armature with an ax handle”, one of whom died on the spot, and the other is in serious condition.

Taiwan's defense ministry said China may have simulated an attack on the island during a military exercise. On said August 6, 20 Chinese military aircraft and 14 ships were conducting an operation around the island, the ministry . Several planes crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which is considered the line of demarcation between Taiwan and China. On August 5, 49 Chinese aircraft crossed it, said .

Mediazona published stories from two prisoners about visits to their colonies by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who offered the prisoners to take part in the war in Ukraine in exchange for money and a pardon. According to a prisoner from IK-4 in the Tula region, Prigozhin arrived there on July 25.

Interview with Simon Reynolds - one of the most famous musical critics in the world. About the raves of the 1990s and the "bad time" that has come in the United States Simon Reynolds. Leonardo Cendamo / Getty images In Russian, the book “Fleet of Energy: Journey through Riv-Musa and Dance Culture” (translation from English by Mikhail Irzak and participants in the workshop of literary translation by Dmitry Simanovsky) was published in the publishing house of V-a-C.

Lawyer Maxim Grebenyuk, who runs the Military Ombudsman project, announced the closure of a camp for Russian soldiers who refused to fight on the territory of the self-proclaimed LPR. Grebenyuk was told about the closure of the camp by two of his applicants, who, according to his words, escaped from the pretrial detention center in the city of Krasny Luch.

The funeral of volunteers on the Maidan. Locked under Slavic. Russian blows to Bakhmut and Toretsk On August 5, a fire occurred in Energodar at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant under the control of Russian troops. The pro -Russian administration of the city accused of shelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukraine called this a Russian provocation. The head of the administration of the Kherson region of Vladimir Saldo controlled by Russia is transported for treatment to Moscow.

Senior Chinese military did not return "numerous" calls from US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley amid US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. Politico writes about this, citing sources. It is not clear from the article whether this happened before, during, or after Pelosi's stay on the island. After the visit, China began large-scale military exercises in the Taiwan area. On Aug.

In Texas, a jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of Jesse Lewis, who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook High School shooting at the age of six. Jones was fined for spreading allegations that the Sandy Hook massacre was staged to impose gun restrictions. According to the parents of the deceased child, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, Jones' followers, who believed them to be liars, harassed and threatened them for years.

Director of the Ukrainian office of Amnesty International Oksana Pokalchuk announced her departure from the organization after almost seven years of work. This happened after the publication by human rights activists of a report on the violation of the laws of war by the Ukrainian military. According to Pokalchuk, she and the leadership of the organization "dispersed on values." This is another loss that the war has brought me.

How Russian propaganda utilized and distorted allegations by Amnesty International that Ukrainian troops endanger civilians Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / LETA Ukrainian troops fire a missile at Russian positions in the Kharkiv region on August 2, 2022 On August 4, the human rights organization Amnesty International published a report titled “ Ukrainian Fighting Tactics Endanger Civilians ,” warning that “Ukrainian forces have put civilians in harm’s way by establishing bases and operating