In the telegram channels associated with the Wagner PMC, there was a video of the speeches of the PMC Evgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin in front of mercenaries. Presumably, it was filmed in Belarus, when exactly is unknown. In the video, Prigozhin and Utkin say that the Wagnerians will temporarily remain in this country, and then return to Africa and, possibly, to the front in Ukraine.

Since the beginning of 2023, the Russian courts received 2076 criminal cases of unauthorized abandonment of the part. This is already twice as much as over the past year, I calculated the Mediazone. By June, the military courts in Russia made 100 sentences every week under the article on the unauthorized leave of the part or place of service. Most of the convicts under this article are mobilized, the publication notes.

PMC "Wagner" may have released all prisoners recruited in Russian prisons. This is stated in the investigation of the publication "Important Stories." According to the publication, now the former prisoners are located in hotels in the Krasnodar Territory and are waiting for the paperwork of pardon. After that, they will be able to go home.

Since the beginning of a full -scale military invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and before the capture of Bakhmut in May 2023, the Russian PMC Wagner lost 22 thousand people killed - this is almost every third fighter. Such an assessment appeared in the telegram channel "Wagner Unloading" close to the PMC. See the first exchange of prisoners since August.

Analysis of fresh satellite shots of the Planet service Labs , made on July 19 at 6:29 a.m. Belarusian time, allows you to calculate the approximate amount of equipment located on the territory of the Wagner PMC in the village of Purpose. According to preliminary data, it is here that the leaders of the Russian PMC Vagner Evgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin are located : a video of their appeals to the mercenaries was published in social networks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin The court in Kaliningrad fined the local resident Oleg Kholodenko for 35 thousand rubles due to insulting Russian President Vladimir Putin on social networks. He was charged with an article on insulting human dignity and disrespect for Russian statehood on the Internet, reports Sotavision. What kind of post we are talking about is not reported. Kholodenko himself in court stated that there was no evidence of his involvement in publication.

The State Duma on Wednesday immediately in the first and final reading adopted a bill that gives the Rosguard the right to have heavy military equipment in service.

On Wednesday, the Ministry of Defense of Russia stated that from July 20, all vessels following the Black Sea in Ukrainian ports will be considered as potential carriers of military cargo. Accordingly, the countries of the flag of such courts will be considered "involved in the Ukrainian conflict" on the side of Kiev, the agency’s statement is indicated .

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The Tver District Court of Moscow arrested another person undergoing the case of the Kremlin laundry telegram channel. The translator Denis Savinsky, according to the investigation, was also the administrator of the channel. He is accused of extortion on an especially large scale. In court, Savinsky announced his innocence. The defense asked to choose a preventive measure for him in the form of house arrest.

On the night of July 19, Russia struck the Khoked Drones-Kamikaze, Kaliber winged rockets and anti-ship missiles. The main blow occurred in the Odessa region, the city attacked the second night in a row after the statement of Moscow on the exit from the grain transaction. Anti-ship "Onyxy and K-22 were attacked by the port and critical infrastructure of Odessa and Chernomorsk (Ilyichevsk), the Ukrainian military said.

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The State Russian Museum canceled the exhibition of works by artists of the new Klin Novikov Academy, its opening was planned on Wednesday.

In Kazan, the FSB officers detained a local resident who was supposedly going to set fire to military equipment in the Kazan Higher Tank Command School. The case was opened under the article on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization. This was reported by RBC with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The publication reports that the detainee arranged a caches with bottles of kerosene near the school territory.

Andrei Rublev’s icon “Trinity”, which was exhibited from June 3 in the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, on Wednesday was transported to the All-Russian Art-Restoring Center named after Grabar. There she will have to undergo conservation and restoration. Earlier, art historians opposed the exposition of the Trinity in the Church, explaining that due to the dilapidation of the masterpiece, storage outside museum conditions could lead to irreversible damage.