Russian authorities did not officially acknowledge a strike on the facility. Yaroslavl Region governor Mikhail Yevrayev declared a drone threat overnight and added the region was being attacked by Ukrainian UAVs. He urged residents to stay away from open areas, take shelter inside buildings, close curtains, keep their distance from windows, and remain in rooms with solid walls. During the attack, local authorities closed the roads near the refinery.

Knowledge of several foreign languages ​​slows down brain aging by 6 to 13 years. This conclusion was reached by a study, the results of which were presented at Europe’s largest neurobiology conference, which started in Barcelona on July 6. Excerpts are provided by The Guardian newspaper and the specialized publication Medical Xpress . Earlier studies also confirmed that people from European countries with higher levels of multilingual proficiency tend to age more slowly, the newspaper notes.

Noah Krieger is the subject of an investigation by Important Stories and Correctiv, which established that a native of Chechnya, Murad Dadaev, is operating under this name. He joined the AfD, promoted pro-Russian and far-right views in the party, published Nazi kitsch, admired Vladimir Putin and maintained connections with both representatives of the AfD and people from the circle of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

Startup Doctronic is preparing to completely remove doctors from the prescription renewal process as part of a pilot program in Utah. Currently, all AI solutions are still checked by human doctors, but the company expects to soon move to a fully automated mode, reports the Associated Press.

Brovdi claims that each tanker carried 7 thousand tons of fuel. According to him, the strike was carried out in cooperation with the Ukrainian Navy by soldiers of the 9th Kairos battalion of the 414th SBS Brigade "Birds of Madyar". The published footage shows alleged hits on ships, but the Ukrainian side did not report the extent of the damage, the condition of the crews or whether the tankers sank or were able to continue moving.

Technology companies are announcing mass layoffs linked to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). This spring, U.S. tech giant Oracle said goodbye to 30,000 employees, replacing some of them with AI that they themselves had helped train . Meta plans to cut around 8,000 jobs, around 10% of its workforce in an effort to offset the cost of its AI investments (as well as financial problems stemming from its failed bet on the metaverse).

There has been no independent confirmation of the claims. Neither Malian authorities nor Russia have officially reported the loss of a helicopter, and the published footage does not make it possible to reliably establish who the aircraft belonged to or the circumstances of the crash. The report of the downed helicopter came amid large-scale attacks on Malian army and pro-government positions.

On July 4, at the request of Russian authorities, Turkey sent Russian anti-war activist Ariadna Litvinova back to Moscow. Litvinova, 24, is wanted in her home country on criminal charges of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian armed forces, the human rights project Prison Lawyer reports . The plane carrying Litvinova landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, where she was detained .

The commercial court of the High Court of England and Wales refused to allow Nord Stream operator Nord Stream AG to recover €579 million from insurers for damage to a gas pipeline during explosions in the Baltic Sea in September 2022, according to a decision published on July 6. The court found that the damage was directly or indirectly a consequence of Russia’s war against Ukraine and therefore fell under the policy exclusion from insurance coverage.

The UK has imposed sanctions against Russian structures and specialists whom London considers to be associated with the development of chemical weapons. The sanctions list included the NPO NC Signal, the State Research Institute of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and seven individuals. The restrictions apply to people and organizations involved in the development, production and study of Novichok and epibatidine, the Kingdom’s Foreign Ministry reported .

Russian planes have dropped sonobuoys, which can be used to track submarines, near Britain's flagship aircraft carrier in the Arctic Circle. The Telegraph newspaper writes about this with reference to the country's Ministry of Defense. The incident, as follows from the newspaper report, occurred last week, on July 2. Several Tu-142 patrol aircraft (NATO codename Bear-F) dropped a large number of sonobuoys in the immediate vicinity of the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales in the Norwegian Sea.

The chairman of the State Duma Committee for Family Protection, Nina Ostanina, filed a lawsuit against her colleague, deputy Ksenia Goryacheva. The capital court received a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity, the reason for it was the controversy of deputies about the criminalization of domestic violence. Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets write about this. The issue of criminalizing domestic violence was raised in the State Duma again last month.

The Court of Appeal in Moscow increased the prison term of Galina Bekhter, a 68-year-old resident of the occupied part of the Zaporozhye region, from 11 to 12.5 years, convicted in the case of “high treason.” According to SOTAvision, the meeting was held behind closed doors.

Security forces in Armenia came to search the home of Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the pro-Russian Prosperous Armenia party. This was reported by the press secretary of “Prosperous Armenia” Iveta Tonoyan and the pro-government Telegram channel “Baghramyan 26” . The searches were confirmed by the Investigative Committee of Armenia. As Tonoyan writes, National Security Service officers are now on duty at the entrance to Tsarukyan’s residence; they do not allow lawyers inside.

As a result of the raid on Crimea, one person was killed and two more were injured, said the “head” of the region, Sergei Aksyonov. He also said that infrastructure facilities were damaged due to the strikes, so power will be turned off on the peninsula. According to Krymenergo, a blackout occurred throughout Crimea on the morning of July 6.