The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine reported that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops in the country, 61,431 Russian soldiers have died. attention to this . drew The BBC Russian Service Such data, the Ministry of Internal Affairs notes , is contained on the website of the Lost.net project, where the Ukrainian authorities publish information about Russians who have died in the country since February 24, 2022.

A political scientist explains how Russia’s flagrant injustice protects the political status quo that might well outlive Putin Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On June 19, 2023, Alexey Navalny attended a court hearing without leaving the penal colony where he is currently imprisoned.

Two sea drones carried out an attack on Russia’s Novorossiysk naval base on the Black Sea Friday morning. The Russian Defense Ministry reported that it successfully repelled the attack, while Novorossiysk’s mayor said two Russian ships “reacted instantly and helped avoid the consequences” of the attack. Video of the incident, however, appears to show one of the drones exploding and another hitting a landing ship.

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited the roofs of the third and fourth power units of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in the annexed Energodar and found no mines or explosives there. This was announced by the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi. The experts were granted access to the site on August 3 after repeated requests. IAEA staff inspected the roofs of two power units and the roofs of the turbine rooms.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said Friday that the body’s members support President Vladimir Putin’s idea that all public officials should drive Russian-made vehicles. “We need to start with ourselves. The leaders of the State Duma factions and I discussed the issue of using domestically made vehicles. Everyone supports the decision,” state media quoted him as saying.

The publication “Important Stories” claims that the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov first published a family photograph in which Fatima Khazuev is present, which journalists call Kadyrov’s “second wife”. The photo appeared on Storis on the user of Ya_Pomoshnik_kra_95, in which Kadyrov’s comments had previously appeared. “Important stories” call the account the personal instagram of the head of Chechnya.

Russian and Ukrainian telegram channels reported that an explosion occurred in the area of ​​the Crimean bridge connecting the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation and annexed Crimea. Mash reported that, according to local residents, the explosion occurred near the village of Yakovenkovo ​​in Crimea (the Opuk military training ground is located there). The village is located 40 kilometers from the Crimean Bridge.

Meduza’s statement on Alexey Navalny’s 19-year prison sentence On August 4, Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 19 years in a “ special regime ” prison colony for activities that the Russian authorities classify as “extremism.” A Moscow court deemed Russia’s most popular opposition leader a “particularly dangerous recidivist” and shaved just one year off the sentence state prosecutors had requested.

Journalists from BBC News Russia and Mediazona, working with a group of volunteers, have used open sources to confirm the identities of 29,217 Russian soldiers who have been killed in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The team has added more than 1,800 volunteers, draftees, and contract soldiers to its running list in the last month. According to the researchers’ report , most of the new confirmed losses were linked to Moscow’s effort to repel Ukraine’s counteroffensive.

The former technical director of Navalny Live (he was given 8 years in one case with Navalny) wrote a letter: “Fight! Do not be silent! For the sake of yourself and your children " Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Alexey Navalny and Daniel cold at the exit meeting of the Moscow City Court in the IK-6 colony in the Vladimir region.

Two months passed after the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. How people now live in cities next to her. The main thing from the report of the Ukrainian Pravda Nicolas Cleuet / Le Pictorium Agency / Zuma Press / Scanpix / Leta view of the Kakhovskoye reservoir. July 3, 2023 On the night of June 6, the dam was destroyed by the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

In a video message, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky, according to the results of August 4, said that he heard a report of the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Malyuk about a certain special operation - probably about an attack on the Russian base in Novorossiysk, in which the Russian landing ship “Olenegorsk miner” was damaged. “Today was the report of the head of the SBU Malyuk. I will not voice the content.

American actor Margolis died at the age of 83, reports The Hollywood Reporter, referring to the statement that his son, actor and general director Knitting Factory Entertainment Morgan Margolis. Phil McCarten / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Margolis died on August 3 at the Mount Sinai hospital in New York after a short illness, his son said. Mark Margolis is known for the role of the drug dealer Hector Salamanca in the series “All Great” and “Better Call the Solu”.

Russian politician Alexei Navalny commented on the sentence he received in a case of “extremism.” The oppositionist's statement was published on his social networks. “19 years in a special regime colony. The number doesn't matter. I understand very well that, like many political prisoners, I am serving a life sentence. Where life expectancy is measured by the lifespan of my life or the lifespan of this regime. The sentencing figure is not for me. She's for you.

Application "Medusa" about the verdict Alexei Navalny Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 years on charges that the Russian authorities call extremism. The court considered the most popular opposition policy of Russia a “particularly dangerous recidivist” and sentenced him to exactly one year less than the prosecution required, with serving a “special regime” in the colony, that is, in the most strict conditions from existing in Russia.