A warehouse with pyrotechnics caught fire on Luzhnetskaya Embankment in Moscow. The fire occurred at the address: Luzhnetskaya Embankment, house 2/4, building 4. According to Yandex. Card, at this address there is a Pyrotechnics store "BAX", writes RBC. Eyewitnesses report multiple explosions. TASS, citing sources, writes that the fire spread to neighboring buildings, the fire area increased from 150 to 500 square meters. m.

In St. Petersburg, new restrictive measures are being introduced in connection with the epidemiological situation. The corresponding order was signed by Governor Alexander Beglov. From June 20, no more than 3,000 people will be allowed into the fan zone of the European Football Championship on Konyushennaya Square, and up to 1,000 people will be allowed into the territory of the theme park in Yubileiny. From June 21, access to water parks and attractions is prohibited for visitors.

Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary session of the 20th Congress of the United Russia party and named candidates for the top five of the United Russia list for the September elections. Among them were Sergei Shoigu, Sergei Lavrov and Denis Protsenko, the head physician of the hospital in Kommunarka, and for the first time the chairman of the EP, Dmitry Medvedev, was not on the list.

The Ministry of Transport sent a letter to Russian airlines with a proposal to add the function of authorizing passengers using a certificate of vaccination against COVID-19 to their online ticketing platforms. It is reported by RBC. The corresponding instruction was given by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. The Ministry of Transport proposes to take data on the vaccination of passengers from the public services portal.

Belarus will not accept passenger planes arriving from Ukraine, said . Alexander Lukashenko “Since Ukraine has closed the flight for us, then we from Ukraine will not simply accept planes,” the Pool of the First Telegram channel quotes him as saying. On May 23, a Ryanair plane en route from Athens to Vilnius made a forced landing in Minsk. The reason for this was information allegedly received by Belarus about the bomb, which was never confirmed.

In Moscow, 24 criminal cases have been initiated on the facts of the manufacture and sale of false certificates of the absence of coronavirus and fake vaccination certificates, the reported press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow . This week, Baza told how this black market works.

Greece has extended until June 26 the entry permit for foreign citizens who can provide a vaccination certificate, a negative PCR test, or a certificate of the coronavirus and the presence of antibodies. These rules apply to Russians as well. The list of countries whose citizens Greece is ready to accept under these conditions has been expanded to 26. Tourists are required to fill out an electronic Passenger Locator Form.

Over the past day, 17,906 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Russia, according to the operational headquarters for combating COVID-19. This is the highest value since the end of January. Moscow has set a new daily record since the beginning of the pandemic - 9120 cases. The previous record - 9056 cases - was reached the day before. The second place in terms of the number of infections per day is occupied by the Moscow region. There are 1456 cases in the Moscow region.