Peter Opelnik The Constitutional Court of Russia refused to consider the complaint of Ukrainian Peter Opalnik, who disputed the article of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows "double protection" - a lawyer for appointment and by agreement. This is told by the human rights project the first department. According to the current standards, if the accused did not agree that he was given a free lawyer, the investigation or the court can ignore this and leave the appointed defender.

Ukrainian police have named a Russian military man who allegedly gave orders to shoot at civilians in occupied Bucha. This is Artem Tareev, born in 1995, who commanded the 234th Airborne Assault Regiment of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division in March 2022.

Soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels, photo from the archive Russia and Ukraine carried out another exchange of prisoners of war on Monday. Negotiations on the exchange took place through the mediation of the United Arab Emirates. The numbers cited by the parties vary. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the exchange took place according to the formula “150 to 150”.

Tanker Eagle S escorted by a Finnish coast guard ship The anchor trail of the Eagle S tanker, linked to Russia and detained by the Finnish coast guard on suspicion of damaging the Estlink 2 electrical cable, stretches for tens of kilometers, Bloomberg reports . The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation noted that the place where the ship dropped the anchor has not yet been established, but the trail to the point where it was raised stretches for tens, if not hundreds of kilometers.

Slava Komissarenko A court in Minsk sentenced Belarusian stand-up comedian Slava Komissarenko to six years in a general regime colony in absentia. The state agency Belta reports this. The comedian was found guilty of slander and insulting Alexander Lukashenko, as well as inciting social discord. After the 2020 presidential elections in Belarus, Komissarenko repeatedly spoke out about their falsification and condemned police violence against protesters.

In Russia, during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of criminal cases were opened under the article on “justification of terrorism” - mainly for words on the Internet. And the longer the war goes on, the more sentences there are for anti-war statements, which the state equates to terrorist actions.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and US President Joe Biden at a meeting in Italy, June 13, 2024 US President Joe Biden announced the allocation of Ukraine by a new assistance package by almost 2.5 billion dollars. It will include the supply of 1.25 billion from the Pentagon reserves, as well as assistance for 1.22 billion as part of the Ukrainian Security Assistance initiative, which involves the purchase of weapons from American manufacturers.