The Italian warship Thaon di Revel landed an inspection team on board a tanker of the Russian “shadow fleet,” the Italian Ministry of Defense reported. The flagship of the EU mission in the Mediterranean carried out an inspection of the EU-sanctioned tanker Toa Payoh to check its nationality, the ministry said in a statement.

The penultimate operating power unit of the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary was shut down on the night of August 2 due to a decrease in the water level in the Danube. Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced the upcoming shutdown on August 1 on his Facebook page. “After this [power unit shutdown], the power plant will produce only 240 megawatts of electricity, and tomorrow it will be completely shut down for the first time in 44 years,” he wrote.

Meduza's instructions to help you cope with all the summer dangers August has begun. For many, this is the last chance this year to “have a good summer.” But on vacation you can encounter a lot of dangers. Simple rules help minimize risks. You just need to know and follow them. Without it, even experienced swimmers drown, caring parents lose their children because they fall through open windows, and healthy adults end up in the hospital due to heat exhaustion.

Alexander Chaiko takes part in a parade in Vladivostok as commander of the Eastern Military District, July 2017. Sergei Orlov / TASS / Profimedia On August 1, an explosion occurred in a high-rise building on Barrikadnaya in Moscow. At that moment, a private event was taking place in the Balzi Rossi restaurant, located on the ground floor of the building. According to the National Anti-Terrorism Committee, the attack killed three people and injured more than twenty.

20-year-old Moroccan footballer Faten Ben Omar El Aziz, who plays for Maghreb Atlético Tetuán, died while trying to reach Ceuta, Mundo Deportivo and El Mundo reported, citing a statement from the club. At the same time, there are no messages about Faten Ben Omar el-Aziz on social networks or on the website of the club itself. However, the Union of Professional Footballers of Morocco also reported the death of the athlete, without specifying the cause.

In early July, the Russian cargo ship Mikhail Britnev delivered military equipment to the port of Lomé in Togo, which was then transported to the capital of Mali, Bamako, to support the Russian and Malian military in the fight against rebel groups, writes the BBC. “Mikhail Britnev” came under US sanctions in 2024.

Patriarch Kirill, during his speech to believers at the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevo Convent in the Nizhny Novgorod region, spoke about the creation and purpose of Russian nuclear weapons. According to him, it was in this place, where the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov are kept, that “the shield of our homeland began to be forged.” The scientists who worked here in Sarov created our Russian atomic bomb, which stopped the enemy’s plans to destroy and enslave our Fatherland.

1621st day. Ukraine attacks another (already 17th) Wildberries warehouse. The commander of the unmanned forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces promises that this is “definitely not the last” strike 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. Ukraine is expanding the scale of attacks against the Russian Federation.

The explosion at the Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square was a terrorist attack, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. “Yesterday, a brutal terrorist act was committed in Moscow that took the lives of people. The victims are now in city hospitals, where they are receiving all the necessary assistance,” he wrote. According to Sobyanin, law enforcement agencies are establishing the circumstances of the incident.

Ukrainian drones again attacked a Wildberries warehouse - this time in the Samara region. According to the company itself and the regional authorities, there were no casualties as a result of the attack, but the logistics complex caught fire and, according to eyewitnesses, “completely collapsed.” One of the assemblers who worked at the warehouse says that everything happened during a shift change. The employees immediately ran out. “The drones flew and flew. I don't know where at all.

The United States postponed the attack on Iran at the request of the Islamic Republic itself and other countries in the Middle East, Donald Trump said on the Truth Social social network.

Ukrainian drones struck the Bashneft-UNPZ oil refinery in Ufa, writes the Astra telegram channel, which studied photos and videos of eyewitnesses. The head of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, reported on August 2 that air defense forces repelled a massive drone attack on the republic’s enterprises. According to him, one of the drones was shot down over the industrial zone of Ufa, and a fire started. However, Khabirov did not provide any details and did not name the company.

The Balzi Rossi restaurant on Kudrinskaya Square, where the explosion occurred the day before, promised to help the families of the victims (according to official data, there are three of them), the establishment said in a post on Instagram. “The Balzi Rossi restaurant decided to provide assistance to the families of the victims.

No, it's not 2026. Read an excerpt from Mikhail Zygar’s book “The Empire Must Die” about how Russia began to lose in the First World War The first edition of the book “The Empire Must Die” by journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar was published in 2017, on the centenary of two Russian revolutions - the February and October. Almost ten years later, in 2026, the Meduza publishing house re-released this book dedicated to the Russian Empire on the eve of its collapse.

Updated. Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan signed a decree appointing Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister. The government of Armenia, led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, resigned. He himself published a video of Pashinyan signing a resignation letter addressed to the President of the Republic on his Telegram channel.