The European Union (EU) will allocate another € 500 million for the provision of military assistance to Ukraine. This was stated by the head of the EU foreign policy service Josep Borrel, TASS quoted him. According to him, the war in Ukraine will continue, and the EU will continue to support the country with everything necessary. The amount allocated from the European weapon fund for Ukraine will increase to € 2.5 billion.

Denis Manturov in the status of Deputy Prime Minister will oversee the Ural Federal District. This was announced by the head of the Russian government Mikhail Mishustin. According to him, Manturov will also oversee different industries, including the atomic and military-industrial complex. Earlier, the curator of the Ural Federal District in the Federal Cabinet was Yuri Borisov, who is now holding the post of head of Roscosmos, replacing Dmitry Rogozin in this place.

YouTube and Twitter ignore requests for the elimination of Russian propaganda and misinformation directed against Ukrainians. This was written by The Washington Post with reference to analysts of the Situing Center for Disinformation (Disinformation Sitation Center). The publication notes: by the almost sixth month of the Russian propaganda war there were so many that companies stopped having time to marry it.

As a result of a missile blow to the city of Dnieper, four people were killed, 16 people were injured, another seven people are in the hospital. This was told by the head of the regional military administration (ova) Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, the Russian military on July 15 hit the industrial enterprise and the street next to him. The analysis of the rubble was finished today. “The enemy attack took away the lives of four people, sixteen were injured.

The former top manager of the Central Bank Dmitry Rubinov was put on the international wanted list. About this writes "Kommersant". Rubinov is accused of organizing extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and abduction (Article 126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) of three people, one of whom is a two -year -old child. According to Kommersant, this is directly related to the case of the captured assets withdrawn from the Taatt bank.

The state prosecutor of the prosecutor’s office of the Western Administrative District requested for the creator of the public “Ombudsman of the police”, former police Vladimir Vorontsov 6 years in prison with serving a sentence in a penal colony and imprisonment of the “police major”. This was reported by the Moscow prosecutor's office in its Telegram channel.

Deputies of the Communist Party, LDPR and Fair Russia introduced a bill to the State Duma prohibiting the promotion of non -traditional relations and denial of family values. The document is published in the Duma electronic database.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky appointed Vasily Malyuk the acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). From January to March 2020, Malyuk served as deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime of the Central Administration of the SBU. After that, he headed the department and stayed at the post until the summer of 2021.

The Ministry of Digital Development of Russia is going to introduce the concept of Bug Bounty into the legislation in order to legalize the payments to “white” hackers. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to a source in the market for the development of cybersecurity tools. “White”, or ethical hackers are specialists who help companies test information systems on the contract system and eliminate vulnerabilities. The term Bug Bounty refers to reward programs for such hackers.

H&M clothing chain has announced leaving Russia. This is stated in the message on the company's website. “After a thorough consideration, we consider it impossible, given the current situation, to continue our business in Russia. We are deeply saddened by the influence that this will have on our colleagues, and are very grateful for their hard work and selflessness.

On July 18, the Foreign Ministry of the Foreign Ministry of the European Union agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia: it includes 48 individuals, including one of the deputy prime minists of the Russian government and several regional leaders. According to the head of the EU foreign policy, Josep Borrel, following the meeting of the heads of the Foreign Ministry in Brussels, the sanctions will not stop the war in Ukraine, but they should create many economic problems of Russia.

Serbia President Aleksandar Vucich said that the Antonov An-12 Antonov, who had crashed in Greece, was transporting training and lighting mines from Serbia to Bangladesh through Jordania, TASS reports . “These were educational and lighting mines, the load was heading to Bangladesh to the final buyer, the Bangladesh government confirmed this. This is our work, we earn on this, 35 thousand of our citizens work in this industry.

The organizers of the concerts began to prescribe in agreements with artists to restrict applications on political topics due to fears that they will have “information that is not true” about the war in Ukraine, RBC reports with reference to representatives of two agencies and a concert director of several famous music groups. According to representatives of show business, this practice in recent months is massive and applies to almost all major events.

In the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, warehouses with 5 thousand tons of grain were destroyed by the Russian missile blow. This was told by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration Valentin Reznichenko. According to him, another rocket flew to the school yard. As a result of the blow, the facade and roof of the local lyceum were damaged. Reznichenko also reports a missile entering a private house of local residents.

Last night, July 17, in the Alchevsk region, the Russian fighter-bomber Su-34 crashed.