In St. Petersburg, the performance of the artist and TV presenter Ivan Urgant at the festival of the charity foundation helping children with autism, "Anton is Here", was cancelled. He himself reported this on his Instagram page, without giving any reasons. "I was invited to perform with a guitar and a moustache. I agreed without hesitation. A wonderful opportunity to meet dearly loved residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and help people with autism and their loved ones.

A group of State Duma deputies from the United Russia and SR parties have introduced a bill that proposes to give the Prosecutor General's Office the ability to send criminal case materials against people abroad to competent authorities in foreign countries for prosecution. Currently, this mechanism only applies to foreigners, but if the bill is adopted, it will also apply to Russian citizens abroad.

Photo: Anton Sheveliov / Ministry of Defense Ukraine On the night of August 3, Russian air defense systems repelled attacks over seven regions and the Sea of ​​Azov. In total, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, 75 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type were shot down. In Orel, two UAVs hit a multi-story building, warehouses were burning in the Rostov Region, and an oil depot in the Gubkinsky urban district in Belgorod Region.

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach considers the bullying of female boxers who have previously failed the gender test at the Paris Games unacceptable. He told journalists about this and called on them to put an end to this issue. "You have to put an end to this," Bach said. "We are talking about women's boxing, we have two athletes, both of them were born women. They grew up as women, and their passports say that they are women.

Over the past week, 23 children were returned to Ukraine from the Russian-occupied territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhia and Luhansk regions. This was reported by the head of the Save Ukraine charity foundation, Mykola Kuleba. According to him, three of the children are orphans. Among those returned is an 18-year-old boy from Energodar, whose father, a former worker at Zaporizhzhya NPP, was brutally beaten in front of his eyes.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has not ruled out transferring the rights to develop oil and gas fields in the country to BRICS countries if the US and its allies continue to try to destabilize the situation in Venezuela. His words are quoted by the VTV television channel. According to Maduro, BRICS “represents a gigantic market for national producers, guaranteeing the development of exports and the Venezuelan economy,” and Caracas is interested in these opportunities.

Russian soldiers likely executed a Ukrainian prisoner of war by cutting off his head and limbs and posting a photo of his body online, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets reported on his Telegram channel. As The Insider has verified, a photograph of the dismembered body of a man in a T-shirt with the inscription “Everything will be Ukraine!” actually appeared on one of the Russian Z-channels (Beware, violent footage!).

In January-June 2024, Russian citizens made 12.6 million trips abroad, according to statistics from the Federal Security Service Border Service, which was analyzed by RBC. This is 9% more than in January-June 2023 - during that period, the border service recorded 11.6 million trips.

The founder and head of the "Sided Russia" foundation, Olga Romanova , reported the death of 39-year-old pianist Pavel Kushnir, who was accused of terrorism, in the Birobidzhan pretrial detention center. "This was not officially announced.

Over the course of a week, Russian forces have been striking a radar station at the Kharkiv airport. and in the Nikolaev region , as well as the Dolgintsevo airfield in the Dnipropetrovsk region , where a Su-25 attack aircraft was hit. Civilian casualties and deaths as a result of shelling were reported in the Zaporizhia , Sumy ( 1 , 2 ), Dnipropetrovsk ( 1 , 2 , 3 ), Kherson ( 1 , 2 ), Donetsk and Kharkiv regions ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).

Russian military intelligence officers have been sent to Yemen to help Iran-backed Houthis target merchant ships in the Red Sea, Middle East Eye reports . The GRU officers are acting as consultants in Houthi-controlled Yemen, a senior US official told the publication, speaking on condition of anonymity and citing US intelligence data.

The Ukrainian Ambassador to Dakar, Yuriy Pivovarov, was summoned to the Senegalese Foreign Ministry. According to the department, the reason was the publication of a video on the embassy's account about supporting terrorists in Mali.