The High Court in London has ruled that Western insurance companies should not cover damage caused by the explosion of both branches of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. The Financial Times writes about this with reference to the court decision . Nord Stream operator company Nord Stream demanded almost 580 million euros from insurance companies for blowing up the gas pipeline. If Nord Stream had won, insurers would have had to pay out one of the largest payouts in history for infrastructure damage.

There was a complete blackout in Cuba. The reasons are still unknown, state electricity operator Union Electrica de Cuba (UNE) said . For Cuba, home to almost 10 million people, this is the eighth power outage since the end of 2024 and at least the third in the last six months - since the United States began an energy blockade of the island in January 2026, cutting off supplies of oil and petroleum products. The blockade worsened Cuba's economic problems.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with the Financial Times that a key phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war has shifted from land and sea to air. In his opinion, it is the “battle in the sky” that will determine the outcome of the conflict. Zelensky said that Ukraine manages to hold the front and pin down Russia at sea, and therefore the sky has become the battlefield. “And in this confrontation, whose territory is larger matters much less. We moved into airspace.

The head of the Vologda region, Georgy Filimonov, said in his telegram channel that he was stuck on the highway because his official car ran out of gas. “Literally 15 minutes ago I stopped without fuel. The tank is at zero. This happened on the high-speed bypass of the city of Vologda. I moved from the company car to a car that agreed to give me a ride. With this I testify to the fact that we are all sailing in the same boat and solving the existing problem,” Filimonov said .

Project “I want to live” Anton Milaev The adopted great-grandson of USSR Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev, Anton Milaev, took part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and was captured in the spring of 2026. The “I Want to Live” project, with the help of which the Ukrainian authorities promote surrender among the Russian military, published an interview with Milaev on July 6.

During the great war with Russia, Ukrainian troops hit 10 of Russia's 10 largest oil refineries by installed capacity. The tenth place was taken by the Omsk Oil Refinery, the largest oil refinery in the country. Ukrainian drones attacked it on July 6. As a result of the strike, as stated by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a primary oil refining installation was damaged. Cover photo: AFP / Scanpix / LETA

A native of Chechnya and a former member of the far-right German party Alternative for Germany, Noah Krieger (real name Murad Dadaev) said that he went to the war zone in Ukraine to participate in the war on the side of Russia. This conclusion can be drawn from a series of videos that he published on his Instagram, reports the German television channel n-tv. Astra writes that Krieger began publishing videos allegedly from Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine six days ago.

In just 15 years, 25 local residents became its victims. Aabha Pokharel / Wikimedia Commons Dhurbe elephant in Chitwan National Park in Nepal In Nepal, an elephant named Dhurbe attacked residents of the village of Jagatpur, located on the outskirts of Chitwan National Park, on the night of July 5, and killed two people - a 25-year-old woman and a 4-year-old child, reports the Nepalese publication The Kathmandu Post.

A drone danger regime was declared in the Novosibirsk region, residents were urged to stay at home and not go near the windows. The corresponding warning was issued by the Unified System for Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations. “Stay at home if possible! Take shelter in a windowless room with solid walls! Don't go near the windows. If you are on the street or in a vehicle, go to the nearest shelter or other safe place,” the message says.

The Moscow Exchange index during trading on the afternoon of July 6 fell by 2.45% and dropped to 2187.83 points, RBC reports . The index has not fallen below 2200 points since February 27, 2023. Among the leaders of the decline were shares of VTB (-10.5%), InterRAO (-9.9%) and preferred securities of Transneft (-8.4%).

FIFA insists: the call had nothing to do with it. But the media found out that the White House had been conducting a hidden lobbying campaign for four days. PA Wire / PA Images / Scanpix / LETA Donald Trump and Gianni Infantino with the World Cup during the World Cup draw. December 5, 2025 There is a huge political scandal at the World Cup.

Residents of the Belgorod region most of all want the end of the war, said the acting governor of the region, Alexander Shuvaev, in an interview with Kommersant. This is how he answered the question of what the region’s residents want most now: So that the special military operation ends, so that all categories of citizens can further develop their activities, so that life in the region improves. This is the most basic thing. There is no way without this.

Ramzan Kadyrov has been nominated as a candidate for the upcoming elections of the head of Chechnya from United Russia. This decision was unanimously made at a conference of the regional branch of the party in Grozny, TASS reported. Kadyrov himself said that he was “not happy” with this decision. “To be honest, I’m not happy that I’m going to the polls. If you asked me, I would choose another candidate, because this is a big responsibility, I know how difficult this task is.

The price of Russian Urals oil has fallen to the level observed before the start of the war in the Middle East, Bloomberg reports. The average price for Urals oil for shipment in the western ports of Russia in the first three days of July was $41.66 per barrel. Since March, every month the average price of Urals oil has exceeded the Russian budgeted $59 per barrel.

Before this, Baza stated that this area of ​​Moscow “has become the main platform for street fighting” Police detained several dozen people in the center of Moscow on the evening of July 3. Among them was streamer Vitaly, who at that moment was broadcasting live on the Twitch platform. Now his channel ya__dalbaeb with 120 subscribers is temporarily blocked by the service administration. In his Telegram channel, the streamer said that while walking in the Kitay-Gorod area, he saw a paddy wagon.