All versions of explosions at an air base in Crimea, a ban on visas for Russians and stopping the Druzhba oil pipeline TASS @ The most mysterious news of the day is a series of powerful explosions at the Russian military airfield in Crimea. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the cause of the explosions is a violation of fire safety equipment, the Ukrainian military does not officially say anything, but informally claim that the Armed Forces are behind explosions.

In most scenarios of the conflict between the US and China over Taiwan played out by retired US military, the island manages to be defended, but at the cost of heavy losses of the US Air Force and Navy. about this Bloomberg writes with reference to war games in the influential Washington think tank CSIS. Most of the scenarios come from China attacking Taiwan for "reunification" no later than 2026 and a massive US military response.

One person died as a result of explosions in Novofedorovka. In total, according to preliminary data, six victims, including a child. The death of a person as a result of explosions at an airfield in Crimea was announced by the head of the region Sergey Aksenov in the Telegram channel. According to him, the situation is localized and under control, there is no general evacuation. The authorities determine the amount of damage.

What is patriotism in the context of an entrepreneurial position and whether the patriots are “wrong”, the entrepreneur Anastasia Tatulova thinks with the readers of his channel . There was such an American scientist Robert Wilson. In the late sixties, he knocked out money in the congress on an accelerator of elementary particles. And some senator take it and ask: tell me, will this your accelerator allow to strengthen the country's defense capacity? No, Wilson says, it will not allow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with The Washington Post, called on Western countries to completely close the borders for Russians, regardless of their political position. “Then they will understand. They will say: “We have nothing to do with this war. After all, the entire population cannot be held responsible? “Maybe. They chose this government and do not fight it, do not argue with it, do not shout at it,” Zelensky said.

Since August 4, the Ukrainian state-owned company Ukrtransnafta has stopped the pumping of Russian oil through the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline. Through this branch, raw materials are supplied to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The reason is that the Russian side cannot process the transit payment. Transneft explained that payment became impossible due to European sanctions, and the Ukrainian company works only on a 100% prepayment basis.

The presidential decree prohibiting shareholders from unfriendly countries from leaving companies in the financial and fuel sectors until the end of the year has frozen the sale of Russian assets of energy companies Fortum and Enel, Kommersant has learned . The deal announced by Italy's Enel was the most ready. The group hoped to sell its 56.43% in Enel Russia (three 5.6 GW power plants and two wind farms) to Lukoil and the Gazprombank-Fresia fund for 135 million euros, below the market price.

The largest Russian marketplaces Wildberries, Ozon and Yandex Market have created a unified information system to combat counterfeiting, Forbes writes with reference to a joint press release of the project participants.

The London-based military research institute RUSI has published a report on foreign components in Russian weapons delivered from Ukraine. The main conclusion is that in 27 analyzed samples there are 450 critical imported components, not all of which Russia has stockpiled in sufficient quantities, and 70% of them are made in the USA.

After a dip in March-May and a weak recovery in June, the unsecured lending market almost returned to levels at the beginning of the year in mid-summer. In July, Russian banks approved 1.75 million cash loans worth 427.4 billion rubles to the population, RBC reports citing Frank RG data. Compared to June, the volume of loans issued in July increased by 23.3%, and the number of new loans - by 14.8%.

Putin's decree on special measures in the fuel and energy sector blocked Enel and Fortum's exit from Russia The presidential decree prohibiting shareholders from unfriendly countries from leaving companies in the financial and fuel sectors until the end of the year has frozen the sale of Russian assets of energy companies Fortum and Enel, Kommersant has learned . The deal announced by Italy's Enel was the most ready.

The opinion that Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine has dragged on is held by 59% of Russians, according to a recent Russian Field poll, data from Kommersant . At the same time, the inhabitants of the country are equally ready to support the signing of a peace agreement (65% of respondents were in favor of this), and a “new attack on Kyiv” (60%). The expert explained this contradiction by the unwillingness of society to think about big political problems.