In 20 Russian regions, more than 40 detachments with “volunteers” have been created since spring, who are promised to pay for participation in the war with Ukraine from 130 to 300 thousand rubles. About this writes "Kommersant". The publication clarifies that in August “volunteer detachments” were formed in St. Petersburg (Kronstadt, Neva and Pavlovsk), which are allegedly equipped with “exclusively residents of St. Petersburg”.

Russia has indeed been mining the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Energodar, and storing shells of “different capacity and different power” right in the shops. The information previously reported by The Insider's sources has been confirmed by Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, during The Insider’s online stream . Meanwhile, Ukraine and the Russian Defense Ministry continue to blame each other for the strikes.

European officials were extremely puzzled by the rapprochement of Russia and Turkey and seriously consider the introduction of sanctions against Ankara if the republic helps Moscow in the detour of Western sanctions. This was written by the British Financial Times with reference to six European officials who are aware of informal discussions within the European Union.

The Turkish company Baykar will build a Bayraktar drunken drone plant in Ukraine, said Ukraine’s ambassador to Turkey Vasily Bodnar. According to him, Baykar has already created a company in Ukraine and acquired a land plot for construction, and a week ago the government approved a bilateral agreement and sent it to the ratification parliament. “Making production in Ukraine was an almost personal obligation of the company's owners,” Bodnar emphasized.

The Russian Defense Ministry and the Ukrainian Armed Forces together with Energoatom directly accuse one another of nuclear terrorism. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian military formations continue their strikes on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which could lead to a humanitarian disaster. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, at 12:40 a.m. on August 7, Ukrainian artillery struck the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant.

In Chernigov, the Ukrainian court sentenced the Russian tankman Mikhail Kulikov to 10 years in prison, reports ґrati. He was found guilty of shelling a residential building. At the first meeting, he pleaded guilty and stated that he was repenting . He said that he drove into the territory of Ukraine on the night of February 23 to 24.

The Sacura ship with grain and other food came out of the Odessa port of the South for the first time since the beginning of the war and goes to Italy. This was reported by the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine on Facebook. Together with him today, the Arizona ship went from the port of Chernomorsk to Turkey, they united in a caravan. In total, 60 thousand tons of agricultural products on board of both ships, the department clarifies.

The propaganda agency in its message uses the term “reunification with Russia”. Thus, in history, the transition of the Zaporizhzhya troops and part of the territories of modern Ukraine (hetman) to Russian citizenship in 1654 is denoted. With a request for the unification and transition to the service of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the hetman of the bogdan Khmelnitsky troops on June 8, 1648, hetman, turned in a letter.

Danish director Lars von Trier aged 66 was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the newspaper The Copenhagen Post reports . “Lars is in a good mood, he treats the symptoms of the disease to complete the Kingdom project. In connection with the disease, Lars will take part in a limited number of interviews before the premiere of the project scheduled for this year, ”the Zentropa, which produces von Trier’s films, said in a statement.

News Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of nuclear terrorism 8 August 2022 The Ministry of Defense of Russia and the Armed Forces with the "Energoatom" of Ukraine directly accuse each other of nuclear terrorism. According to the Russian military department, Ukrainian military formations continue to strike at the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which can lead to a humanitarian disaster.

The Russian authorities began to “virtually” to sell currency from reserves: the amount of funds nominated in the currencies of unfriendly countries began to decline, despite the blocking of these funds by Western countries. This is evidenced by the statistics of the National Welfare Fund (FNB), which was published by the Ministry of Finance.

ECONOMICS Atom vs. barrel. Russia's gas blackmail forces Germany to rethink its nuclear power phase-out 8 August 2022 The EU's leading economy, Germany, has turned out to be one of the most dependent on Russian energy resources. The problem is that the country, as part of its «green deal,» has not only closed coal-fired thermal power plants, but also decided to completely abandon nuclear power, although the environmental damage it causes is minimal.

Relatives of the Russian soldier Leonid Savin, who was considered missing after the Moscow cruiser sank, received a certificate of his death. Now the soldier is officially recognized by the deceased, his brother Vladimir Savin said , the project “We can explain”. “A criminal case has been created, but nothing will be known before raising the cruiser,” he said.

Activist from Kaluga Timofei Radzikhovsky responded to a comment by Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council, in which the politician promised revenge for blocking the YouTube channel of Dmitry Puchkov (“Goblin”), with a sentence: “Dmitry, can you stop drinking already?” After that, the Russian lost access to the public community Civil Society of the Kaluga Region on VKontakte, and his colleague, journalist Denis Starostin, was detained, Sota reports .

The EU's leading economy, Germany, has turned out to be one of the most dependent on Russian energy resources. The problem is that the country, as part of its «green deal,» has not only closed coal-fired thermal power plants, but also decided to completely abandon nuclear power, although the environmental damage it causes is minimal.