In Tyumen, more than 2,000 km from the border with Ukraine, a local oil refinery is on fire due to a drone attack. The Astra publication, citing an eyewitness, reported that the plant was struck at least two times in a row. Earlier, the governor of the Tyumen region, Alexander Moor, declared a regime of unmanned danger in the region and recalled that distributing photos and videos of attacks or air defense operations is prohibited under threat of punishment.

As of July 23, 2026, there were 2,318 cases of measles in the United States, compared with just 2,289 cases for all of last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said . Thus, the United States broke a 35-year record for the number of measles cases. Most of those who became ill—93%, according to the CDC—had not been vaccinated or their vaccination status was unknown. Only 16 cases have been reported among foreign tourists in the United States.

Georgia’s only operating oil refinery, located in Kulevi on the Black Sea coast, has been included in the European Union’s 21st sanctions package. Brussels is demanding that the refinery stop buying Russian energy products — currently, Georgia buys about 99% of its crude oil from Russia, according to data from its state statistics service. The sanctions against the Kulevi refinery were introduced with a six-month delay.

About two thousand years ago, up to 75 thousand languages ​​could exist on Earth - almost ten times more than today. This conclusion was reached by an international group of researchers who modeled changes in linguistic diversity over the past 12 thousand years. The work was published in the journal Science. There are approximately 7,500 living languages ​​in the world today, with more than four disappearing every year.

After the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall in 2024, there was a significant shift in Russian migration policy: the authorities began to increasingly restrict migration from visa-free countries and try to attract migration from non-CIS countries. For migrants from these two categories of countries, different tracks are used in Russia.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine detained the organizer of a weapons exhibition near Kyiv, where a Russian missile hit. Advertisements for the exhibition were posted publicly nine days before the event, and the exact location and time of the event were announced one day before. The investigation is checking whether these actions could have contributed to the fact that the Russian Armed Forces deliberately struck the exhibition.

Earlier today, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Denis Pasler, declared a drone danger regime, and later reported on repelling the attack and stated that as a result of the fall of UAV debris, a fire broke out in a parking lot in the Chkalovsky district of the city, which has already been localized. “Economy and infrastructure facilities are not damaged. People were evacuated, there were no injuries. All responsible services are working on site,” Pasler wrote.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia announced on his Twitter page (X) that the country has begun the procedure of denouncing the Rome Statute and withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court by decision of the country's interim President Delcy Rodriguez. The country has already officially notified UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierres of this decision.

Indian Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as a result of mass student protests that swept Delhi and several other cities in the country last week. Bloomberg writes about this. The reason for the protests was repeated leaks of materials from national entrance exams and other problems in the education system.

Through this structure, SAFE has acquired stakes in dozens of assets in eight European countries over the past 14 years. In Spain, the agency indirectly received 33.75% of the company, which, through another structure, owns Madrileña Red de Gas, a large gas operator supplying hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the Madrid region. In the UK, SAFE owns 49% each of three onshore wind farms in Wales and Scotland.

The Council of the European Union included in the sanctions list the settlement non-bank credit organization "Payment Center" - the operator and settlement center of the "Zolotaya Korona" payment system. The restrictions were adopted the day before, July 23, as part of the 21st package of sanctions against Russia. The EU stated as a basis that the organization operates in the banking sector, which brings significant income to the Russian authorities.

French prefectures have begun notifying Russians that they will no longer issue temporary residence permits (Autorisation provisoire de séjour, APS). From September 1, 2026, applications for this document will no longer be considered. This is reported by the InTransit project, which helps people who are persecuted in Russia to safely leave the country and legalize themselves abroad.

In addition, the list included individual institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and scientific and production organizations.

The rise in fuel prices in Russia, caused by Ukrainian attacks on refineries, began to affect the prices of a wide range of goods and services. This was stated by the Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, at a press conference following a meeting of the board of directors of the regulator. “Operational data indicates that the rise in fuel prices is beginning to spread to prices for a wide range of goods and services,” Nabiullina said (quoted by TASS).

The Sheskharis oil terminal in Novorossiysk, the largest Russian oil port on the Black Sea, has not loaded crude oil onto tankers since the morning of July 21. This is reported by Bloomberg, which studied shipping data, satellite images and information from ship tracking services. The reason for the stop was not officially stated, but it occurred against the backdrop of increasing Ukrainian attacks on ships and port infrastructure in the region.