The Kremlin’s guide for covering an upcoming religious holiday instructs propagandists to push territorial claims to Ukraine and Poland Alexander Demyanchuk / imago images / Scanpix / LETA Meduza has obtained a copy of the Putin administration’s latest instructions for state-owned and pro-government news outlets.

Ukraine’s military says they have taken the village of Staromaiorske in one of the main directions of the offensive in the south of the country. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky posted video footage of Ukrainian service members’ announcement on his Telegram channel. Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defense for Ukraine, confirmed that Staromaiorske had been liberated. “Our defenders continue to protect the settlement now,” Maliar wrote on Telegram.

The Ukrainian military announced the capture of the village of Staromayorskoye on one of the main directions of the Ukrainian offensive in the south. The video of the statement of the military personnel was published by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. Information about the release of Staromayorsky was also confirmed by the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar. “Now our defenders continue to clean up the settlement,” Maliar wrote in her Telegram channel.

The Ukrainian army does not have enough air defense systems to counter Russian attacks on grain infrastructure, which have become more frequent after Russia's withdrawal from the grain deal, said Natalia Gumenyuk, spokeswoman for the operational command "South" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “We need anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense.

Updated . Journalist Lutfiye Zudieva, who was detained in Simferopol, was fined 12,000 rubles. According to Grati , three other detainees, together with Zudieva, were also fined, and journalist Kulamet Ibraimov was arrested for five days. In the annexed Crimea, near the building of the Supreme Court in Simferopol, Lutfiye Zudiev, a journalist from the Ukrainian edition of Grati, was detained, the editorial office of Grati reports.

It is not clear what these pictures are. On July 27, the first day of the Russia-Africa Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Telegram channels associated with the Wagner PMC distributed photographs of Yevgeny Prigozhin with alleged foreign guests of the summit. They hinted or even directly stated that Prigozhin was taking part in the forum and meeting with guests on the sidelines. It is unknown who, when, and where took these photos.

In Russia, at least half of the cases of arson of military registration and enlistment offices are investigated under “terrorist” articles, Mediazona reports. According to the publication, by the beginning of July 2023, at least 113 attacks on military registration and enlistment offices, police departments and administrative buildings had been committed in Russia.

How a Russian surgeon went from believing Kremlin propaganda to risking her freedom to oppose the war 7x7 Olga Avdeyeva with a sign reading “Freedom for political prisoners!!!” Olga Avdeyeva is a surgeon and mother of five from Izhevsk, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Udmurtia. In August 2022, she left an anti-war message beneath a large Z symbol on the side of the local theater that she passed every day on her way to work.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree awarding the Order of Courage to RIA Novosti "war correspondent" Rostislav Zhuravlev, who died in Ukraine. The corresponding document was published on the Kremlin website. The President also awarded employees of Russian propaganda media who came under fire along with Zhuravlev: RIA Novosti photojournalist Konstantin Mikhalchevsky, Izvestia correspondent Roman Polshakov, and the channel’s cameraman Dmitry Shikov.

In Moscow, law enforcement officers detained a 17-year-old teenager who allegedly was going to blow up a gas pipeline network facility, the press service of the RF IC reports. The detainee's name has not been released. According to investigators, no later than January 2023, the teenager decided to commit a terrorist attack.

Chechnya’s Interior Ministry has begun refusing to issue foreign passports to residents younger than 30 if the applicants are not accompanied by older relatives. The agency said in response to a complaint by lawyer Alexander Nemov that the policy is intended to ensure that “the goals of a trip are not contrary to the interests of the Russian Federation,” according to the crisis group SK SOS.

The UK authorities have allowed sanctioned Russian billionaires to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars from frozen accounts, including on service personnel, reports . The New York Times According to the publication, money is given to businessmen under sanctions on the basis of licenses that allow them to use part of the assets from frozen accounts. In some cases, Russian businessmen were allowed to spend more than a million dollars a year, the newspaper writes.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How not to get into the army? And what to do if they still call? On July 25, State Duma deputies approved a package of documents tightening the law on military service. Many amendments were published just a few hours before the meeting. According to new norms, Russians will be called up from 18 to 30 years old. At the same time, the authorities previously discussed that the lower level of draft age should be increased from 18 years to 21 years.

As Medusa found out, this is how propagandists will tell the Russians about the next anniversary of the baptism of Rus' Alexander Demyanchuk / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta Russian state and pro -government media received another training manual from the presidential administration (AP) of the Russian Federation. It listed that it is precisely the propagandists who should tell the Russians in their materials on the next anniversary of the baptism of Rus', which is celebrated on July 28.

The TV channel conducted a special score about its "undesirable" in Russia. Journalists said what this means and how they will work further “Rain” conducted a special broadcast in connection with the decision of the Russian Prosecutor General to declare the TV channel an “undesirable” organization. It was attended by the channel and other media journalists, as well as lawyers. They talked about what the decision of the prosecutor's office means.