On July 18, the Russian military took away in an unknown direction two leaders of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). This was reported by the Ukrainian state enterprise Energoatom. According to Energoatom, the kidnapped ZNPP employees are Sergey Pikhtin, deputy head of the decontamination shop for operation and handling of radioactive waste, and Elena Ryabtseva, foreman of the decontamination shop.

One person died and six more were injured as a result of a missile blow to Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region. This was stated by the head of the administration of the region Pavel Kirilenko. YouTube screenshot: Donetsk regional administration According to Kirilenko, the blow was inflicted by the R-37 cruise missile. In the central part of the city, ten high -rise buildings were damaged. Earlier today, Slavyansk also came under fire.

At least nine Khakass National Guardsmen filed suits for reinstatement in the region's Supreme Court after being fired for refusing to fight in Ukraine. This was reported by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, with reference to Vladimir Vasin, a lawyer for the editor-in-chief of the New Focus, Mikhail Afanasiev. According to Vasin, the cases of the Khakass National Guardsmen are considered behind closed doors, since they contain state secrets.

In the Khabarovsk Territory and Yakutia, a federal emergency mode is being introduced to combat forest fires. This is reported by Rosleskhoz.

UK Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak won the largest number of votes in the penultimate round of the British Prime Minister's election. It is reported by Sky News. Sunak won 118 votes, former Minister of Defense Penny Mordaunt - 92, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss - 86. Former Deputy Minister for Women's Affairs Kemi Badenok dropped out of the race for the post of prime minister. The final round of voting will take place tomorrow.

Over 10,000 civilians are held at Russian “filtration camps” in Mariupol, city mayor Vadym Boychenko said during a briefing. According to Boychenko, municipal workers and government employees are held at the “filtration camps”. They have no access to medical care. About 2,000 men are held at one of the detention centres, which may be related to the upcoming mobilisation of troops, Boychenko suggests. “We understand what they are doing this for.

The Southern Military District Court of Rostov-on-Don sentenced the 59-year-old Crimean Tatar activist Azamat Eyupov to 17 years in a strict regime colony in the Khizb Ut-Tahrir case. This is reported by the movement "Crimean Solidarity". The first three years of the conclusion of Eyupov will be in prison. During the detention in the pre -trial detention center, the activist suffered four ischemic strokes. Azamat Eyupov.

Yuri Nikolaev, a resident of Ukraine’s Hostomel who is using an alias for safety reasons, has located his stolen AirPods in Russia’s Ulyanovsk after Russian troops had left the region, he told Mediazona news outlet. Yuri lives in an apartment complex in Hostomel. After the start of the Russian invasion, he and his wife left for western Ukraine and spent about two months there. Local residents who stayed in the city reported that Russian soldiers had broken into the majority of the flats.

More than 10,000 civilians are being held in Russian "filtration camps" in Mariupol, Mayor Vadim Boychenko said during a briefing. According to Boychenko, municipal workers and civil servants are kept in "filtration camps". They do not have access to medical care. In addition, about 2,000 men are kept in one of the centers, which may be related to the upcoming mobilization, Boichenko believes. “We understand why they do it.

A London court allowed Russian billionaire Pyotr Aven to pay for "basic needs" from his accounts. about this Bloomberg writes , citing a court order. The document says that since March 15, the basic needs of the billionaire were paid by his wife Ekaterina. Aven's monthly expenses are estimated at £140,000 ($167,840). According to Bloomberg source, most of these funds are intended for the protection and insurance of the art collection.

How the editorial office of “Evening Vedomosti” lives and writes about, which 55 cases of discrediting the Russian army counted Photo: Ekaterina Zhuravleva The publication "Evening Vedomosti" from Yekaterinburg will have to be paid if they suddenly do not win the appeal process, 350 thousand rubles of a fine for almost six dozen cases of discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation recognized by the court. How did journalists be so “discrediting” the military?

Gostomel resident Yuri Nikolaev (not his real name) geolocated his AirPods in Ulyanovsk after the withdrawal of the Russian army. about this . Yuri told Mediazone According to Yuri, he lives in the residential complex "On Proreznaya" in Gostomel. After the outbreak of the war, together with his wife, they went to western Ukraine and spent about two months there. Local residents who stayed in the residential complex then said that the Russian military broke down the doors in most apartments.

Adviser to the head of the Kherson military administration Serhiy Khlan said that the Ukrainian military fired at the Antonovsky bridge in Kherson. His words, spoken on the air of the national telethon, are quoted by the Russian service of the BBC. “Right now they are transmitting that there is an exact hit in the area of ​​​​the Antonovsky bridge, namely between the bridges across the Dnieper and across the [river] Konka, in the area of ​​​​the Nairi cafe and the bus station,” he said.

The Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee began an investigation after the death of Professor Dmitry Kolker, who was arrested in a case of treason. This was reported by the head of the "Agora" Pavel Chikov with reference to the lawyer Alexander Fedulov. Kolker's body was handed over to his family. Today in Novosibirsk there was a farewell to the professor.

Like the yachts of Sechin, Mordashov, Potanin, Abramovich, Deripaska and other oligarchs hid from sanctions Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a significant part of the Russian establishment has been on the sanctions lists of the European Union, Great Britain and the USA. The West announced the assets of the oligarchs, including the yachts. Since the beginning of the war, the European authorities managed to arrest 16 yachts that are associated with people close to the Kremlin.