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.

Preparations for oil production at Britain's largest undeveloped field, Rosebank, could be delayed by months after two key pieces of drilling equipment were accidentally dropped from a drilling platform into the North Sea. The Guardian reports this. The incident occurred on April 18. None of the workers were injured, but two central elements of the drilling system, including a safety valve, fell into the sea to a depth of 1.1 thousand meters.

After his release from prison in 2009, financier Jeffrey Epstein did not stop the sexual exploitation of women, but organized an international network of their recruitment and transportation. This conclusion was reached by Bloomberg journalists who analyzed documents from the US Department of Justice, including correspondence, Skype messages and airline ticket booking records. Between 2009 and 2019, Epstein's employees booked more than 3,700 commercial air trips, Bloomberg estimates.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Croseto, in an interview with La Repubblica , said that the day after the resignation of Ukrainian Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov, he called him and offered him the position of his adviser.

Tour operators have taken stock of the start of the summer, and the results are discouraging. In June, 15% fewer hotel rooms were booked in Russia than a year earlier, while bookings for July and August were down 10%. The share of online bookings that were canceled has already reached 20%. According to the figures for last summer, Krasnodar Krai ranked first in bookings (20.3% of the total), while Crimea came in fourth (4.7%).

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in response to Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s proposal to freeze the war in Ukraine, said that a cessation of hostilities is possible only after Russia achieves its goals. This was announced by Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, Putin “told everything in detail about the special military operation” to Tokayev in response to the proposal. The Kremlin spokesman also said that “a freeze is impossible” given Kyiv’s position.

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.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Omsk, proposed freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to negotiations in the Istanbul-2 format. According to him, he receives “many signals” from Europe and the United States regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine, so he decided to take advantage of his visit to Omsk to publicly express his position.

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.

The wreckage of the downed Iranian Shahed drone in Kharkov in September 2025. Viacheslav Madiievskyi / NurPhoto / IMAGO Iran's Foreign Ministry issued a statement strongly condemning Ukraine's attack on an Iranian merchant ship in the Caspian Sea. Tehran said the attack caused an explosion on the ship, killing one person and injuring another.