Meduza shares an updated combat map with the latest developments from Kupiansk, Bakhmut, southern Ukraine, and the east bank of the Dnipro Since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Meduza has adopted a consistent antiwar position, holding Russia responsible for its military aggression and atrocities. As part of this commitment, we regularly update an interactive map that documents combat operations in Ukraine and the damage inflicted by Russia’s invasion forces.

Two people were killed as a result of shelling of the village of Chausy in the Bryansk region, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz reported on social networks. He claims that the village of Chausy was shelled by Ukrainian troops. One person died on the spot, and later it became known that the second had died. Two residents - a woman and a man - were injured of varying degrees of severity, the head of the region said.

How the children of one of Russia’s wealthiest officials solicit donations to support an armed hate group Student Patriotic Society at Moscow State University A new report from the outlet T-invariant identifies the adult children of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev as the founders of the Student Patriotic Society (SPO), a student organization at Moscow State University (MGU) that raises money for Russian ultranationalists fighting against Ukraine.

According to the latest data, one person died and 16 people , including four children, were injured due to a missile strike in the city of Zaporozhye, in the evening of August 10, the head of the Zaporizhzhya regional military administration Yuri Malashko said. According to him, Russian troops hit the object of civil infrastructure.

Doctor of Economics Igor Lipsits said that he resigned from the National Research University Higher School of Economics after the university management canceled his contract for remote work. about this He wrote in his telegram channel. I inform you that as of September 1, I am leaving the Higher School of Economics of my own free will.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky began looking for a replacement for Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov, Ukrayinska Pravda reports, citing the words of interlocutors in power. According to them, negotiations on this issue were held with two government representatives - Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Kubrakov and Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin. Ukrayinska Pravda noted that it does not know whether negotiations took place with other candidates.

The government of Moldova has suggested banning ride hailing apps from sharing passenger data with countries outside of the E.U., Moldova MP Alexander Trubka told publication NewsMaker. “The government suggests barring all platforms from exporting passengers’ personal data outside of the E.U.” Trubka explained, after he was asked about Moldova’s response to the fact that the FSB will gain access to user data from the Yango app beginning on September 1.

In Odintsovo, Moscow region, on the evening of August 10, a large fire occurred, Russian media reported, citing photographs of eyewitnesses. According to preliminary data, a warehouse in an industrial zone is on fire. Smoke from the fire can be seen several kilometers away. According to the Baza telegram channel, the fire occurred at a beer warehouse on Zelenaya Street.

Rebels in Niger have said they are prepared to kill ousted President Mohamed Bazoum if there is military intervention from neighbouring African countries. They reported this to US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, who arrived in Niger for talks on August 8, the Associated Press reports, citing sources. Nuland held "extremely frank and at times difficult" talks in Niger with the military that had seized power in the country, the State Department said .

Judge Oleg Mokrushin of the Industrial District Court of Perm terminated administrative proceedings to “discredit” the Russian army, initiated against 82-year-old writer Alexander Nikonov. The decision was made on August 9, said his lawyer Artem Fayzulin. The administrative protocol against Nikonov was drawn up due to the denunciation of a random passerby, a teenager, with whom the writer started talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Why is the break so long? Roscosmos / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta On the morning of August 11, the Luna-25 automatic station successfully started from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region. On August 20, Roskosmos said that during the transition of the Luna-25 to a pre-end orbit, the connection with the device was lost. It is believed that the station crashed, encountering the surface of the moon. The Russian station "Luna-25" -"Continurator" of the Soviet Mission of 1976.

The Virgin Galactic spaceplane made its first commercial suborbital flight with tourists on board, the company's press service reports. On board VSS Unity were 80-year-old Briton and 1972 Munich Olympics competitor John Goodwin, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, as well as Antigua and Barbuda native Ana Myers and her 18-year-old daughter Keisha Shahaff, who won tickets in a raffle organized by Virgin Galactic, the Omaze Foundation and the non-profit organization Space for Humanity.

The Moldovan government has proposed banning taxi-hailing apps from exporting passengers' personal data outside the EU. Alexander Trubka, a deputy from the ruling Action and Solidarity (PAS) party, told NewsMaker about this.

Russian Internet users have submitted more than 5,000 denunciations against their neighbors and acquaintances on a parody app called My Denunciation, according to the Telegram channel Mozhem Obyasnit, which was given access to the app’s database by its creators. According to the channel, an IT worker created My Denunciation in 2018 but deleted it after several months after it failed to gain traction.

VTB CEO Andrey Kostin earns about a billion rubles a month, writes Vazhie Istorii, citing data on Russians' incomes for 2020 that leaked online. According to this data, Kostin's total annual income was more than 11.4 billion rubles. Of this money, the head of VTB received two million from the United Grain Company, another million each from the All-Russian Regional Development Bank and Rosneft. Kostin received the rest of the money from the bank, which he has headed since 2002.