A bill on declassifying the archives of communist intelligence services has been submitted to the Hungarian parliament, the country's Prime Minister Peter Magyar said. We introduced a bill in parliament to open the archives of the communist-era secret police. We made this promise and we will keep it. In doing so, we are finally fulfilling a long-overdue duty to the Hungarian people.

European Ombudsman Teresa Anyinho has decided to open an investigation against the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, because of her secret chat with Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders, writes Berliner Zeitung. We are talking about a chat whose participants included German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Ukraine expects help from its partners, which was discussed at the G7 summit, to force Russia to “choose peace,” Vladimir Zelensky said in his evening address. Our operation, including in Crimea, is clearly calculated. And the way it continues absolutely proves: if Ukraine gets what we talked about with our partners within the G7 - and this depends on the decision of the partners - we will quickly create conditions under which Russia will be forced to choose peace.

Russian students go to war as drone operators - and die almost immediately. The BBC Russian Service told three such stories Alexey Konovalov / TASS / Profimedia At the beginning of 2023, teenagers in Russia were allowed to enter into military contracts immediately after their 18th birthday and without any restrictions . At the same time, educational institutions began to be visited en masse by “ Northern Military District veterans”, who encouraged schoolchildren and students to go to the front.

World oil prices have dropped to the lowest level recorded since the start of the war between the United States and Israel with Iran, Reuters notes. Brent oil futures fell by $3.42 to $73.65 per barrel. During trading, Brent fell to $73.22, its lowest level since February 27, the last day before the war. American WTI oil lost $3.32 and was trading at $69.87 per barrel, the lowest level since March 2.

Lithuania deported to Russia a native of Chechnya who had lived in the country for more than 20 years, human rights activist Roza Dunaeva said . The Insider, citing a source in the Lithuanian authorities, claims that Beslan Estemirov was sent to Russia. According to Dunaeva, we are talking about a man who fled to Lithuania from the war in Chechnya, in a European country he started a family and raised children - citizens of Lithuania.

Repeaters on the border of Ukraine and Belarus, which helped guide Russian drones, stopped working on June 22, Vladimir Zelensky said in a comment to reporters. According to him, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky and intelligence reported to him about the cessation of the operation of the repeaters. However, it is not yet known whether the equipment has been dismantled or not. What kind of repeaters are these?

Russia is negotiating with Kazakhstan to purchase about 50 thousand tons of AI-92 gasoline to mitigate the shortage on the domestic market. Reuters writes about this, citing industry sources. Kazakhstan, the agency notes, is a relatively small gasoline producer, so Russia is unlikely to be able to count on large supplies. According to a Reuters source in Kazakhstan, the country may transfer its current surplus gasoline to the Russian Federation in exchange for aviation fuel.

German prosecutors conducted a series of searches as part of an investigation into a possible attempt to “disturb the country’s gas supply” during a change of ownership in Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazprom Germania. The Associated Press writes about this. The main suspect in the case is a Russian citizen. He is suspected of violating investment rules, as well as aiding in an attempted unconstitutional act of sabotage.

The first case of infection caused by the Ebola virus has been identified in France, the country's Ministry of Health reported. The virus was found in a patient who returned from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he worked as part of a humanitarian mission. This is also the first time during the new Ebola virus outbreak that the disease has been identified outside of Africa. The sick person was hospitalized in a special medical facility. He is in stable condition.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party, Maxim Kruglov, to seven years in a general regime colony in the case of disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army. The prosecutor requested eight years in prison for the politician. The case against Kruglov was opened in the fall of 2025. The politician has been under arrest since October. The reason for the persecution was two posts.

1582nd day. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the Orenburg Gas Processing Plant, one of the largest gas chemical complexes in the world. Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing? How does war affect your life and your attitude towards the world?

Semyon Slepakov sang about a “small victorious war” that has been going on for five years and will not end because of one person There is one swear word in this text. But you can’t take him out of the song. Russian comedian and artist Semyon Slepakov released a musical parody “Little War” - based on the famous composition “Little Country” by Natasha Koroleva.

Russia is experiencing an acute phase of the gasoline crisis. We have already written that some indicators - for example, a drop in oil refining volumes to multi-year lows and at the same time a high volume of exports of raw materials - indirectly indicate that we are witnessing a truly serious collapse against the backdrop of a campaign of long-range strikes by the Ukrainian army against refineries and other targets in the interior of the country.

June 23 was the hottest day on record in France. Extreme temperatures have killed dozens of people and left thousands of homes without power. Philippe Lopez / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A man bathes in the Girondin fountain on Place de la Quinconce. Bordeaux, France, June 22 Western Europe is experiencing a new, third in a year, wave of sweltering heat. Red warnings for extreme weather are in effect in several countries. So far, France has suffered the most from record temperatures.