The main events of July 3 Margarita Simonyan on the Ksenia Sobchak show on the Rain TV channel, 2013. Photo: "Rain" Five people died and 53 were injured in a Russian strike on the Dnieper. As a result of the attack, a local shopping center was damaged. The court recognized the “extremist association” of the owner of the Moskovskaya and Capital vodka brands Yuri Shefler and his legal entity.

In Dnepr, as a result of a Russian attack, four people were killed and 34 were injured. This was reported by the head of the regional administration, Sergei Lysak. UPDATED AT 19:10 MSK The death toll from the airstrike on the Dnieper has risen to five people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said . The number of victims of the attack has increased to 53 people, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, Serhiy Lysak. Four of them are in serious condition.

What does Viktor Orbán’s surprise visit to Kyiv mean for the future of the war in Ukraine? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán meet in Kyiv on 2 July. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made a one-day state visit to Kyiv on Tuesday, the day after his country assumed the rotating six-month presidency of the EU Council.

Lukashenko announced an amnesty for some political prisoners. The first has already been released. Who can be freed yet? Alexander Zemlyanichenko / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta If Lukashenko amnesties seriously ill -pounded political prisoners, this will become a sensation, because for all his 30 years, amnesty was not applied to political prisoners.

The Tambov District Court of the Tambov Region, following a lawsuit filed by the Prosecutor General's Office, has recognized businessman Yuri Shefler and his foreign legal entities as an "extremist association." This is reported by Interfax. "The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has identified an association whose activities are subject to recognition as extremist and prohibition in accordance with the procedure established by law.

How Blackout took place in the Border of the Belgorod Region due to the drone attack on the substation and how the authorities are trying to cope with the consequences of the war Residents of Belgorod in the courtyard of a residential building after one of the shelling, May 11, 2024. Photo: AFP / Scanpix / Leta On the night of June 31 to July 1, residents of the city of Stary Oskol in the Belgorod region heard an explosion. For them, unlike the Belgorodians, the explosions are not so familiar.

Yuri Chekin, photo: Ural Mash The court in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug sentenced the former chief controller-revisor of the control and audit department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Yuri Chekin to life imprisonment in the case of organizing the murder of district prosecutor Yuri Bederin. This was reported by the press service of the SK.

Alexander Nevzorov and his wife Lydia. Photo: Lydia Nevzorova / Instagram A court in St. Petersburg declared former State Duma deputy turned journalist and Putin critic Alexander Nevzorov and his wife Lydia an “extremist union” on Tuesday, according to their lawyer, the first time a Russian court has deemed a couple to be an extremist unit.

Ioann, Alexey and Timofey Ashcheulov during the court hearing. Photo: SOTAvision Three sons of a priest from central Russia’s Lipetsk region have been handed 17-year prison sentences by a military court for attempting to join a Ukrainian-based paramilitary organisation, Russian independent outlet Mediazona reported on Wednesday.

Three new suspects have emerged in the case of the attempted murder of journalist Ksenia Sobchak and RT head Margarita Simonyan, Sobchak’s Telegram channel “Beware, News” reports . Among the new defendants: eighth-grader Pavel R., communications college student Andrei Detkovsky, and fitter Sergei Korolenkov. They were detained on May 7 in connection with a hooliganism case. They were given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions, in particular, leaving the house at night.

Minors are recorded in saboteurs and terrorists. Novyevropa tells what teenagers in Russia are pursuing Egor Balazyukin at the hearing. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov On June 20, 2024, the military court of the city of Livna of the Oryol region sentenced the ninth -grader Arseniy Turbin to five years in prison in the educational colony in the terrorism case (Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Brothers Ascheulov at the hearing, photo: Sotavision The 2nd Western District Military Court said to the terms of 17 to 17.5 years of the colony of the sons of the Lipetsk priest Igor Ascheulov-John, Alexei and Timofei-because of their attempt to join the Legion of Freedom of Russia, recognized by the Russian authorities with a terrorist organization. It is reported by "Mediazona." Earlier, the prosecutor Eduard Matveychik requested a colony for 18 years for 18 years.

Russian and Chinese companies are developing a drone similar in characteristics to the Iranian Shaheds, which Russia is actively using in the war with Ukraine, Bloomberg reports, citing European officials. As the agency writes, in 2023, Russia and China held talks on cooperation, and already in 2024, the companies began developing and testing drones in preparation for sending them to Russia. So far, the new drones have not been used in Ukraine.

Photo: Serhiy Lysak / Telegram A Russian air strike on the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine on Wednesday morning has killed five people and injured a further 47, according to Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak. Russian forces attacked the city using both missiles and drones, Lysak said , adding that a 14-year-old girl was among the 34 injured, a third of whom had to be hospitalised, and two of whom were in a critical condition.

Russia’s economic dependence on Beijing has given China the power to end the war in Ukraine Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin make a toast during a reception at the Kremlin, 21 March 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE / PAVEL BYRKIN / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL Western leaders are becoming increasingly frustrated by China’s role in enabling the war in Ukraine. Some have even openly threatened to sanction the country if it continues to provide Russia with the materials it needs to build more weapons.