Can a story repeat? Against the background of the ongoing aggression against Ukraine, Western politicians and the media are increasingly discussing the possibility of excluding Russia from the UN Security Council (where it is a permanent member with a veto right) - or even from the organization as a whole. At the same time, there is only one such precedent - in 1971, the Chinese republic, better known as Taiwan, was excluded from the organization.

A Moscow municipal court has ordered the arrest of Mikhail Polyakov, the administrator of the pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Kremlyovskaya Prachka [The Kremlin Laundress], reports Russian independent publication Mediazona, citing a court press release. According to the case file online, Polyakov is suspected of extortion on a particularly large scale. Russian state broadcaster RBC says he is a former FSB colonel. Polyakov was arrested on June 14 and faces up to 15 years in prison.

The British Defense Secretary told the Sunday Times that he had decided to leave his post in the coming months. Wallace said he intends to leave the post of defense minister during the next government reshuffle, which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, according to BBC sources, could carry out as early as September. The minister also said that he would not stand as a candidate for the next parliamentary elections, but he would not give up his deputy mandate ahead of schedule.

The war in Ukraine destroys the forests in which the military is trying to hide. Photos and video consequences of forest battles During the war in Ukraine, forests and forest plantations between fields often become the only protection for the military hiding from all -seeing intelligence drones. Therefore, forests have become places of particularly heavy battles and objects of permanent missile and artillery blows.

Mikhail Polyakov, the administrator of the Kremlin laundress telegram channel, arrested in the case of extortion, until 2022 headed one of the services in the Office for the Protection of the Constitutional Order of the FSB in Moscow and the Moscow Region - this service is engaged in political persecution, they write "Important stories" with reference to their own a source close to the intelligence services.

A district court in Russia ruled partially in favor of Maksim Moiseyev, a defendant in Russia’s first case concerning evading mobilization. The human rights group Voyennye Advokaty [Military Lawyers] says the court ruled that Moiseyev should be paid 20,000 rubles (around $220) as compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution. The case against Moiseyev was opened in late September 2022, after he twice failed to appear at a military enlistment office after receiving a summons.

The New York Times reports that Ukraine lost as much as 20 percent of the equipment it sent into battle during the first two weeks of the summer counteroffensive campaign. More recently, losses have slowed to around 10 percent, though the Times says this is because the counteroffensive’s pace, too, has slowed. Ukraine has retaken only five miles in the southern part of the country.

A district court in Russia ruled partially in favor of Maksim Moiseyev, a defendant in Russia’s first case concerning evading mobilization. The human rights group Voyennye Advokaty [Military Lawyers] says the court ruled that Moiseyev should be paid 20,000 rubles (around $220) as compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution. The case against Moiseyev was opened in late September 2022, after he twice failed to appear at a military enlistment office after receiving a summons.

Members of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, an important think tank, published a statement on July 13, condemning a “preemptive nuclear strike” by Russia. The statement, which expresses the opinion of its signatories but not of the Council as a whole, says that the idea of using a nuclear strike in the event of military failures in Ukraine is becoming increasingly widespread in Russia.

In the first two weeks of the Ukrainian offensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 20 percent of military equipment, including Western tanks and armored personnel carriers, that participated in the hostilities, The New York Times reports, citing US and European officials.

According to investigators, members of a neo-Nazi group were planning to kill them "on instructions from the SBU." The suspects were arrested Update. Moscow's Basmanny Court has arrested seven defendants in the case of the "attempt" on Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak. According to Mediazona, among those arrested were four teenagers born in 2005 and 2006. Another defendant was a minor at the time of the crime.

Members of Russia’s Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, an important think tank, published a statement on July 13, condemning a “preemptive nuclear strike” by Russia. The statement, which expresses the opinion of its signatories but not of the Council as a whole, says that the idea of using a nuclear strike in the event of military failures in Ukraine is becoming increasingly widespread in Russia.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has arrested Mikhail Polyakov, the administrator of the telegram channel Kremlin Laundress, Mikhail Polyakov, Mediazona reports with reference to the press service of the court. According to the case file , Polyakov, whom RBC calls a former FSB colonel, is suspected of extortion on an especially large scale. Polyakov was detained on July 14, he faces up to 15 years in prison.

The FSB of Russia reported on the detention in Moscow and the Ryazan region of members of a "neo-Nazi group" who were preparing assassination attempts on RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak, Interfax reports . The agency writes that "members of a neo-Nazi group" were detained on June 14.

On July 13, members of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy issued a statement opposing a “preventive nuclear strike” by Russia. According to the statement, which is the opinion of the signatories and not the position of the council, the idea of ​​launching a preemptive nuclear strike in the event of military failures in Ukraine is increasingly spreading in Russia.