Oil began leaking again from the bow of the Volgoneft-239 tanker, which sank in the Kerch Strait in December 2024, reports the Russian OSINT project SkyEye, which studied satellite images from early July 2026. The Greenpeace organization confirmed to BBC journalists that oil leaks in the area have been occurring regularly since the beginning of July. According to Greenpeace, oil traces ranging in length from 2-3 to 8-10 kilometers are almost constantly recorded on satellite images.

At the Maly Theater in the 2026/2027 season there will be a play about the Decembrist uprising based on the play by Vladimir Medinsky, theater actor Vladimir Dubrovsky said in an interview with the Tula.aif.ru newspaper on June 28. The actor gave an interview after the Maly Theater performance in Tula, based on another play by Medinsky called “Troubles. 1609–1611.” Dubrovsky called Medinsky “one of the most popular” authors. Then he was asked if he watched Medinsky’s lectures.

In the city of Vishneve near Kiev, which was struck by the Russian army on the night of July 6, there was an ammunition depot of Ukroboronprom, Vladimir Zelensky said during a conversation with journalists. The President of Ukraine called the explosion in Vyshneve “an absolutely horrific situation” that resulted in a large number of casualties. He expressed condolences to the victims and relatives of the victims. “But condolences alone are not enough.

In it, she makes excuses for news about drone attacks and gasoline shortages, curries favor with the main Kremlin censor and complains about difficulties to Andrei Yermak On July 8, journalist and media manager Ksenia Sobchak reported that hackers hacked her email and gained access to her Telegram channels for some time. At the same time, screenshots with fragments of her personal correspondence were published in the channels. The journalist called them fakes and deleted them.

In the Konyshevsky district of the Kursk region, an accident occurred involving First Deputy Governor Alexander Chepik. A 15-year-old girl died as a result of the accident. According to the governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, she was traveling in a car driven by her brother. He lost control, and the car flew into the oncoming lane and collided with Chepik’s car, in which he was in the passenger seat.

In Mali, Tuareg rebels and the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group JNIM attacked a convoy consisting of mercenaries from the Afrika Korps of the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Malian military, AFP and Reuters write. According to Reuters, a convoy escorting more than 200 Russian fighters and more than 100 Malian soldiers was attacked. They were heading towards the city of Anefis in the north.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan organized 59 police posts near automobile border checkpoints. These measures should prevent the illegal export of fuel from the country, the department’s website says . Now all cars crossing the border are checked for additional gasoline containers. In total, since the beginning of the year, local police have identified 255 cases of operation of vehicles with illegal additional fuel tanks. Among the violators are 195 foreign citizens.

The Saratov oil refinery, owned by Rosneft, stopped processing after an attack by Ukrainian drones, Reuters reported, citing two sources. According to the agency, drones hit the CDU-6 primary oil refining installation with a capacity of 20 thousand tons per day. This is the only such installation at the enterprise. Reuters notes that this plant has already suspended operations twice after drone attacks and before - in March and May.

Thomas Hartwell / AP / Scanpix / LETA Billionaire Andrei Melnichenko, ranked eighth in the Russian Forbes ranking with a fortune of over $20 billion, wrote a column for the British magazine The Economist. The very fact of such a column is a rather extraordinary event, since Melnichenko, who is included in the sanctions list, lives most of the time in Russia.

Sber has launched a new service with a map that should help motorists find a gas station that is “highly likely to have gasoline.” The company claims that it shows the current picture for 23 thousand gas stations throughout the country. The basis is anonymized data on fuel purchases. By clicking on a specific gas station, you can see when the purchase of gasoline or diesel was recorded at it.

In the Kirov region, the Lepse electrical machine-building plant was fined 50 thousand rubles due to the fact that its management was unable to provide the required number of “mobilization reserves,” writes Vestka.

In Ukraine, they started talking about the success of “middle strikes” - drones that strike at a distance of up to 100 kilometers from the front line. Here's what the military themselves think about it Anatolii Stepanov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Ukrainian military has begun to increasingly use “middlestrikes” - drones capable of delivering strikes at a distance of several tens of kilometers from the front line.

The Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow sentenced 84-year-old human rights activist Lev Ponomarev to five and a half years in prison in absentia, writes Mediazona. Ponomarev was found guilty of organizing the activities of an “undesirable” organization, as well as evading the duties of a “foreign agent.” In addition, the judge banned the human rights activist from administering websites for nine years.

Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects proposals for peace negotiations with Ukraine and, most likely, will escalate the conflict. This was reported by Reuters, citing three sources close to the Kremlin. According to the agency, Ukraine's intensifying attacks on Russian refineries have only strengthened Putin's resolve to continue hostilities. A Reuters interlocutor who regularly meets with the Russian President said there is a “high probability” of escalation in the coming months.

The shortage of gasoline and diesel fuel (DF) at gas stations across the country is forcing Russians to look for alternatives to cars with an internal combustion engine (ICE). One option available to those who have the resources to buy a new car is plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and electric vehicles. And the dynamics of their sales indicates that thousands of Russians really decided to make such a purchase.