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[Regnum] Moscow and the Moscow region may set heat records in the next few days. This was reported on July 9 by the Hydrometeorological Center.
“We expect that in the next few days the heat could set new highs for the entire history of meteorological observations,” TASS quoted a representative of the Hydrometeorological Center as saying.
The hottest July 9th in Moscow was in 1903. Then the air temperature was +33.5 degrees.
“According to weather forecasters, this afternoon the thermometer readings may rise to +33–34 degrees in the capital region,” the weather forecaster noted.
For July 10, the absolute maximum temperature is +33.4 degrees. This was the day in Moscow in 1996. The next day that same summer also set a record of +35.6 degrees. The record for July 12 belongs to 1903 - then the air temperature in Moscow was +34.5 degrees.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on July 8, the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand said that abnormal heat is expected in the European part of Russia in the coming days. In the Voronezh, Belgorod, Lipetsk and Tambov regions, up to +38 degrees is expected, in the Kaluga and Tula regions - up to +36-37 degrees.
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[Korrespondent] The enemy's greatest activity is recorded in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled more than 30 assaults in the areas of 20 populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 112 combat clashes have been recorded on the front in 12 directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report on Wednesday, July 9.
Thus, in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions, seven armed clashes with Russian invaders have occurred since the beginning of the day.
In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, our defenders stopped five attacks in the areas of the settlements of Vovchansk, Kamenka, Krasnoe Pervoye and in the direction of Liptsy and Petro-Ivanovka.
There have been three attacks by the occupiers in the Kupyansk direction . The defense forces repelled the assaults near Stepova Novoselovka, Radkovka, and toward Novoosinove. One clash is still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invading army attacked 11 times near the settlements of Novy Mir, Ridkodub, Sredneye, Karpovka, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and in the direction of Serebryanka. Currently, four combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out six offensive actions in the areas of the settlements of Serebryanka, Verkhnekamyanskoye and Vyemka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled four attempts by the occupiers to advance in the areas of Belaya Gora, Chasovy Yar and Predtechny. Two more clashes are ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked seven times in the areas of the settlements of Dilievka, Shcherbinovka, Toretsk, Rusin Yar and in the direction of Pleshchievka.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers carried out 36 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Popov Yar, Poltavka, Novotoretske, Mirnograd, Novoekonomichnoe, Mirnoye, Mirolyubovka, Nikolaevka, Promen, Lisovka, Kotlin, Udachnoye, Dachnoye, Novosergeevka, Yalta, Alekseyevka and in the direction of the settlements of Novopidgorodnoye, Pokrovsk, Razine, Rodinskoye. The defense forces repelled 32 attacks. Four armed clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy attacked 17 times near the settlements of Yalta, Mirnoye, Zelenoe Pole, Shevchenko, Volnoye Pole. 11 combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Orekhov direction, our defenders repelled one assault in the Novodanilovka area.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy made four attempts to advance forward, but had no success.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on July 8, Russia lost more than 1,000 fighters killed and wounded. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people.
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[Korrespondent] The Russian army attacked cities in the Donetsk region with aerial bombs and FPV drone strikes. Dozens of houses were damaged.
Russian invaders killed eight civilians in the Donetsk region. Three more people were wounded, the local OVA reported on Wednesday, July 9.
"Five people were killed in Rodinskoye. The enemy attacked the city with FPV drones, destroying two civilian vehicles. Kostyantynivka was subjected to two airstrikes - three people were killed and one was wounded, 21 private houses, an administrative building and infrastructure facilities were damaged," the report says.
In the Zvanovo community, Russians used a drone - they hit a car that was delivering humanitarian aid to residents of this frontline community. Two drivers of the car were injured.
According to the regional prosecutor's office, pre-trial investigations have been initiated in criminal proceedings on the facts of war crimes (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Let us recall that on July 8, the police recorded 3,409 Russian shellings along the front line and residential areas in Donetsk region. Three people were killed , and four more were wounded.
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[NewsFront] 21:50 North group scouts discovered an enemy M-113 armored personnel carrier, in which, under cover of night, an attempt was made to covertly transport enemy manpower to the line of combat contact.
The coordinates were immediately transmitted to the UAV operators of the 83rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Leningrad Military District, who destroyed the enemy APC along with its personnel with several precise hits from their FPV drones, disrupting the enemy’s plans to transfer reinforcements to the area.
21:10 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate the crimes of Ukrainian military personnel that resulted in the death and injury of civilians in the Belgorod region and the DPR
According to reports from the executive authorities, an explosive device detonated in the village of Kolotilovsky in the Krasnoyarsk district of the Belgorod region. One person was killed and two were injured.
In the Donetsk People's Republic, as a result of the detonation of a Ukrainian anti-personnel pressure mine "Lepestok" in the village of Golmovsky in the urban district of Gorlovka, two civilians were injured.
20:51 Drone drivers of the Rubicon Center struck positions, equipment, drones and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
– The FPV drone crew of the North force group destroyed a vehicle along with the enemy personnel.
19:52 Ulyanovsk airborne artillerymen destroyed enemy UAV control point on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
A crew of a 152mm towed howitzer "Msta-B" of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the "Center" group of forces destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction -VIDEO
18:44 Artillerymen of the "Vostok" group struck enemy UAV control points in the Zaporizhzhya direction.
Destroyed:
Enemy UAV control points,
Temporary deployment point for the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
Radio control antennas, repeaters and the Starlink station.
16:50 FPV drone operators of the "East" group of forces inflicted precise strikes on enemy positions in the area of the settlement of Karl Marx in the DPR.
The drone crews of the Southern group destroyed the position of the AGS and the shelter with enemy manpower in the Kramatorsk-Druzhkovsky direction.
UAV operators of the Vostok group destroyed a Ukrainian tank near the settlement of Kamyshevakha in the DPR – MAP
16:30 Military investigators are working with those injured during the attack by Ukrainian militants on Kursk.
16:10 Several assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to advance north from the Kryga River, in the direction of Konstantinovka, and take up positions in the forest belt.
According to the concentration of enemy manpower worked our aviation, and objective control of fire damage was carried out by motorized riflemen.
15:35 RF Armed Forces destroyed an enemy crew of the Ukrainian Armed Forces patrolling ammunition and weapons in the Volchansk direction.
15:05 FSB detained teenagers who carried out sabotage on the railway on orders from Ukrainian special services
-Four minors have been detained for setting fire to railway infrastructure in the Orenburg Region and Udmurtia, the Russian Investigative Committee reported.
-Three residents of Orenburg have already been charged with a terrorist act committed by a group of persons by prior agreement.
- According to the investigation, the teenagers acted for money, carrying out tasks received from the Ukrainian special services.
14:29 Around 13:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
13:41 The Russian army liberated Zelenaya Dolina in the Krasnolimansk direction –MAP
13:10 Around 11:40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed one Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the aircraft type over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
12:28 From 8.50 Moscow time to 10.40 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
12:17 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of July 9, 2025
Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with long-range air-launched precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and long-range strike unmanned aerial vehicles, against the infrastructure of military airfields. The strike's objective was achieved. All designated targets were hit.
Units of the North group of forces improved their tactical position, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, ranger, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments and a battalion of unmanned systems of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Ryzhevka, Kondratovka, Varachino, Yablonovka, Yunakovka, Pisarevka, Sadki and Novaya Sich in the Sumy region.
💥In the Khar'kov direction, units of the tank and airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Olkhovatka, Khatneye and Melove in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 170 servicemen. Nine vehicles, two field artillery guns and a warehouse of supplies were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved the position along the front line, defeated formations of two mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Blagodatovka in the Khar'kov region, Kolodezi, Yatskovka and Zelenaya Dolina in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 220 servicemen, 18 vehicles and a Polish-made 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Krab". Three electronic warfare stations, an air target detection radar station and three ammunition depots were destroyed.📍
Units of the "Southern" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of four mechanized, airmobile, mountain assault, artillery brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the territorial defense brigade and the special forces brigade "Azov" in the areas of the settlements of Nikolaevka, Pereyezdnoye, Slavyansk, Seversk, Minkovka, Serebryanka and Shcherbinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 165 servicemen, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, three pickup trucks, eight field artillery pieces and two ammunition depots.
*Azov is an organization that is recognized as terrorist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.
↗️Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of six mechanized, two airborne assault, a ranger, an airborne brigades, two assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Krasnoarmeysk, Rodinskoye, Dimitrov, Muravka, Udachnoye, Petrovskoye, Grodovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Novopodgorodnoye and Filiya of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to 440 servicemen, six vehicles and three artillery pieces.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the "East" military group, the settlement of Tolstoy in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
💥The manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades, a regiment of unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and four territorial defense brigades were damaged in the areas of the populated areas of Kamyshevakha, Volnoye Pole, Voskresenka of the Donetsk People's Republic, Temirovka, Olgovskoye, Malinovka, Poltavka of the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 205 servicemen, two tanks, an armored combat vehicle, 17 vehicles and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and four territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoe, Plavni, Orekhov, Novoandriyevka in the Zaporizhia region, Stepovoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Antonovka and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
More than 80 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, six vehicles, an artillery piece, eight electronic warfare stations, an ammunition depot and a fuel depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have destroyed ammunition depots, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian Armed Forces formations and foreign mercenaries in 135 districts.
🎯Air defense systems shot down nine guided aerial bombs, four US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets and 226 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
11:17 Servicemen of the engineering and sapper units of the "Center" group are clearing explosive objects in the territory of liberated settlements in the DPR.
10:32 Russian army advances to outskirts of Seversk –MAP
10:21 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces east of Karpovka in the Krasnolimansk direction –MAP
09:44 Servicemen of the 37th Railway Brigade of the Southern Military District, together with the logistics units of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army, organized to supply advanced units in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, using a remotely controlled railway platform.
07:35 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:➡️
Adjustment of the control zone northwest of Kupyansk in favor of ours
Kamenskoye has been liberated
07:17 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 86 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
23 UAVs – over the territory of the Kursk region,
16 UAVs – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
15 UAVs – over the territory of the Tula region,
12 UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
12 UAVs – over the territory of the Oryol region,
Four UAVs – over the territory of the Moscow region, including 2 UAVs flying to Moscow,
Two UAVs – over the territory of the Smolensk region,
One UAV – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
One UAV – over the territory of the Ryazan region.
05:02 Military engineers of the North group of forces continue demining settlements in the border area of the Kursk region.
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[REGNUM] In recent days, the reports from the SVO area increasingly feature the section of the front in the Zaporizhia region, which was on everyone's lips during the failed counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in June-October 2023 and since then has remained a zone of heavy positional battles. But since last week, there have been reports of our troops advancing specifically in the Zaporizhia direction.
Thus, during a fierce assault, Russian troops managed to drive the enemy out of the village of Lobkovoe in the Stepnogorsk district, approximately one and a half kilometers from the Kakhovka reservoir, which had become shallow after the explosion of the hydroelectric power station. Then, "on the shoulders" of the retreating units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian Armed Forces fighters liberated the large village of Kamenskoye on the left bank of the Dnieper.
Kamenskoye often featured in Ukrainian reports in June-September 2023 as one of the few local successes of the "counteroffensive." At that time, our military had to abandon positions in the southern part of the village, which they had held since the beginning of the SVO.
Now the loss of Kamenskoye and the village of Lobkovoe is confirmed by Ukrainian sources.
Developing the offensive along the river bank, Russian troops reached the outskirts of the settlement of Plavni.
The advance of the assault troops continues along the Zaporizhzhia-Melitopol railway. According to local reports, the enemy was driven from the embankment between the 1138th km and 1141st km stations.
Earlier, the villages of Stepovoye and Shcherbaki were liberated in the same direction. Thus, the front line moved forward by three to five kilometers.
The advanced units of the Russian army were able to advance towards the strategically important urban-type settlement of Stepnogorsk.
There are no more than three kilometers from our positions to the outskirts of Stepnogorsk. Ukrainian sources report that Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities within the village are now constantly under attack from Russian UAVs and artillery.
Maintaining the pace of the offensive in this section of the front creates serious threats to the enemy’s defense, an informed source told Regnum news agency.
"The terrain is mostly flat and steppe. There is nowhere to hide, the positions are in plain sight. So control over populated areas and heights is of crucial importance. The floodplains are mostly summer cottages, without high-rise buildings. So now they are trying to form a new front along the Primorskoye-Stepnogorsk-Lukyanovskoye-Pavlovka line, but they are facing a shortage of forces in this direction," our interlocutor noted.
Stepnogorsk is located just 20 kilometers from the southern outskirts of Zaporizhia. There are no large settlements or powerful natural barriers in this area that the Ukrainian Armed Forces could use to organize defense.
However, an easy advance to Zaporizhia is not yet to be expected. The enemy's actions indicate that the Ukrainian Armed Forces commanders are planning to organize a counteroffensive and try to push our military beyond the Yanchekrak River (a tributary of the Dnieper that flows into the Kamenskoye area and divides this village in half).
TOLSTOY AND MIRNOE
The Russian troop group "East" continues to develop its offensive from the area of Velikaya Novosyolka in the southwest of the DPR to the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Thus, last week, forces of the 36th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 29th Army occupied the village of Poddubnoye, located with the previously liberated settlements of Krasnaya Zvezda (Zirka), Yalta and Zaporozhye.
According to information from the field, the enemy did not engage in protracted battles and retreated after a short firefight. Immediately after this, Russian troops liberated the settlement of Tolstoy. Moreover, here too, the enemy decided not to hold positions to the last and also retreated. The Ukrainian Armed Forces command withdrew the surviving fighters to the area of the villages of Novokhatskoye, Iskra and Grushevskoye.
Russian troops, in turn, continue their offensive in the direction of the settlement of Mirnoye, sources on the ground report.
"Now that Poddubnoye has been liberated, and before that Komar, the enemy in Mirny has found itself in a dense fire pocket. It will be extremely difficult to organize a defense there, and we expect that the enemy will soon retreat from there as well. Military actions are also continuing in Voskresenka. So there is a chance to take the enemy in Mirny into a full-fledged cauldron," adds the interlocutor of IA Regnum.
The enemy's last defensive node was created by the enemy in the area of the villages of Novokhatskoe and Grushevskoe, however, the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are under constant shelling, and unmanned aircraft are actively operating along the enemy's supply routes. Earlier, Russian Aerospace Forces bombers struck the bridge over the Volchya River on the N-15 highway, which seriously disrupted the enemy's logistics in Donbass.
After clearing the small part of the territory of the southwest of the DPR from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which still remains under enemy control, our troops have the opportunity to enter the territory of the Zaporizhzhya and Dnepropetrovsk regions in several directions.
KRASNOARMEYSK: BATTLES FOR THE LAST ARTERY
Russian troops are increasing the pace of their offensive in another strategically important area - in the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) area. The city itself and the surrounding settlements have been turned by the Ukrainian Armed Forces into a powerful fortified area, the assault on which could lead to heavy losses. But the Russian Armed Forces are continuing the operation to block the enemy's supply routes in Krasnoarmeysk, while simultaneously attacking the enemy along the entire front line.
North of the city, the advanced units of the Russian army crossed the Kazenny Torets River, creating a bridgehead in the area of the village of Razino. To the south, the assault units of the Russian army managed to break through the enemy's front line and engage in fighting on the streets of the settlement of Novoekonomicheskoe, one of the suburbs of Krasnoarmeysk. Here, the Armed Forces of Ukraine created a powerful defensive line.
A number of Ukrainian sources, more pessimistic, claim that most of Novoekonomichesky has already passed into the "gray zone". The front line runs along Sadovaya Street. The loss of Novoekonomichesky creates serious threats to the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasnoarmeysk. At the same time, success in the Razino area creates the preconditions for a breakthrough to the village of Rodinskoye and the highway connecting Krasnoarmeysk with the territory of the Kharkov region.
In the near future, the entire Krasnoarmeysky fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces may find itself semi-encircled, and in the future, in a full encirclement.
For now, the M-30 highway, which connects Krasnoarmeysk with the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region, remains under enemy control. The enemy is trying with all its might to prevent the loss of control over the strategically important transport artery, so all reserves arriving at this section of the front are taking up positions along the highway.
But other sections of the front remain without reinforcements.
East of Krasnoarmeysk, Russian troops continue their offensive on another Ukrainian Armed Forces defense node — the city of Konstantinovka. Combat operations continue along the Aleksandro-Kalinovo — Kleban-byk — Dyleevka front line.
According to information from the field, Russian troops are storming the village of Belaya Gora. The ongoing offensive of Russian troops may in the foreseeable future lead to the situation on the front, which is difficult for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, becoming critical, The New York Times admits.
Konstantinovka is the southernmost boundary of a large defensive area, which also includes the settlements of Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka. In the event of the loss of Konstantinovka, all settlements to the north will be within the reach of Russian drones. Which will bring the liberation of Donbass closer.
The publication notes that Ukrainian troops can still hold back the pace of the Russian offensive, but are suffering heavy losses. The lack of reserves may soon lead to the encirclement of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in one or more areas of the front. The publication concludes that military actions in the area of Konstantinovka and Krasnoarmeysk and in Donbass as a whole in the coming weeks may change the course of military operations.
Let us add that, in general, our troops are increasing their offensive on several sections of the front from the Kharkov to the Zaporizhia region. Earlier it became known that in June the Russian Armed Forces liberated 556 square kilometers of Donbas territory.
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[Regnum] The number of victims after an outbreak of acute intestinal infection in five villages of the Magaramkent district of Dagestan has grown to 274 people. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of the Republic.
“Over the past two days, 274 people have been registered with symptoms of gastroenteritis, 270 of whom are children,” the department’s Telegram channel says.
The regional health ministry noted that the poisoned people have a mild form of the disease with positive dynamics. 84 people have been hospitalized, the rest are being treated on an outpatient basis.
Doctors have all the necessary means to provide assistance to the victims. The issue of providing medical assistance is under the control of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Dagestan Yaroslav Glazov.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 8, in the Magaramkent district, there was a mass poisoning of residents of five settlements - Magaramkent, Kuisun, Gilyar, Gaptsakh and Verkhniy Tagirkent. According to experts, the cases of the disease are associated with waterborne transmission of intestinal infection. More than 100 poisoned people were hospitalized. Investigators detained the director of the public utility service involved in the poisoning of citizens.
In Dagestan, investigators have detained the director of a public utility service in connection with a case of mass water poisoning. This was reported on July 9 by the press service of the regional investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.
“The director of the municipal budgetary institution Housing and Public Utilities has been detained on suspicion of committing the said crime,” the department’s Telegram channel says.
Investigators continue to investigate the criminal case initiated on the fact of providing services that do not meet consumer safety requirements (Part 1 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The Investigative Committee noted that a sanitary and epidemiological examination has been ordered for the criminal case. The department's employees have conducted searches in the district administration, and have questioned witnesses and victims. A range of investigative actions aimed at consolidating the evidence base are being carried out.
Stalinists, including Borya hardest hit.
[Regnum] The monument to Joseph Stalin, which was erected in the center of Vologda at the end of 2024, must be removed, and the entrepreneur is obliged to return the budget money spent on its production. This decision was made by the Arbitration Court of the Vologda Region.
In April of this year, the regional prosecutor's office filed a corresponding lawsuit. The agency demanded that the contract for the installation of the monument be declared invalid and that 10.5 million rubles be returned to the budget.
According to the United Press Service of the regional courts, the basis for the department's appeal to the court was violations in the sphere of state procurement. They were revealed during the prosecutor's inspection.
“The prosecutor’s office established that the contract was concluded in violation of the principles of openness, competition and efficient use of budget funds,” the press service said in a statement.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that the Vologda Region Prosecutor's Office demanded that the contract for the creation of the monument between the individual entrepreneur Ekaterina Lozhenitsyna and the Vologda State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve be cancelled. It is on its territory that the monument to Stalin was erected. In this building, the revolutionary was exiled in 1911-1912.
Text taken from a news outlet article at vedomosti.ru
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Russia plans to attract 1 million labor migrants from India to compensate for the shortage of highly qualified personnel. This was stated by the head of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andrey Besedin. How many of the men will be thrown into army uniforms and sent directly to the Ukrainian front on arrival?
"As far as I heard from my Indian colleagues, by the end of the year, 1 million specialists from India will come to Russia, including the Sverdlovsk region. A new Consulate General of this country is opening in Yekaterinburg, which will deal with these issues," he explained in an interview with the EAN agency.
According to him, Russian industrial enterprises need to increase production capacity, but the region is experiencing an acute shortage of labor. Some employees are involved in a special operation in Ukraine, and young people are not eager to work in factories, which, according to Besedin, is due to "an ideological mistake made in the country before."
In addition to India, work is also underway with Sri Lanka and North Korea. However, as the head of the chamber noted, cooperation with labor migrants from these countries may be difficult.
New workers will be sent primarily to the metallurgical and mechanical engineering industries, which require highly qualified specialists.
On July 8, the Investigative Committee of Russia reported an increase in the number of crimes committed by migrants, including particularly serious offenses. In the first five months of 2025, the number of such crimes increased by 10% compared to the same period last year, reaching 18,873 cases. The share of crimes committed by foreigners in the total number of offenses in the country increased from 4.3% to 5%.
It's all banal here. Since there aren't enough of our own workers, we have to attract workers from abroad.We are paying for the collapsed system of secondary vocational education, decades of training "lawyers and managers", cultivating disdain for people in blue-collar jobs, etc.
So, despite all the costs, they will continue to attract migrants to work from abroad on an industrial scale.
P.S. Against the backdrop of the Indians, several tens of thousands of North Koreans who must come to work in Russia look very modest. For India, one million more, one million less.
One million people will come to work from India to Russia. This was announced on July 9 by the head of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry Andrey Besedin, citing a statement by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Russia.
“As far as I have heard from my Indian colleagues, a million specialists from India will come to Russia, including the Sverdlovsk region, by the end of the year,” he said in a conversation with Ura.ru.
The head of the Ural Chamber of Commerce and Industry emphasized that all necessary agreements have been reached.
Besedin explained that the authorities want to solve the labor shortage in the industry of the Sverdlovsk region in this way. According to him, they will work at metallurgy and mechanical engineering enterprises.
#1
How many of the men will be thrown into army uniforms and sent directly to the Ukrainian front on arrival?
Probably more useful to put them to work assembling FPV combat drones for infantry support. More troops is nice but the little drones are a big force multiplier. More is better.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Based on the results of the night strikes.
Last night, the Russian Armed Forces successfully carried out an operation to mass eliminate the enemy air force.
As a result of the joint work of the Russian Aerospace Forces, missile forces, and reconnaissance, two Su-27s and up to 10 pieces of support equipment were destroyed at the Ozerny airfield, and an attack was made on the location of the airfield personnel - the enemy lost up to 30 servicemen of the engineering and technical service.
An aviation weapons depot and a fuel and lubricants storage facility were destroyed. At the same time, a combined attack was made on the Lutsk airfield.
As a result of the attack, one F-16 aircraft, up to eight pieces of ground support equipment, and 2 radar stations were destroyed.
A strike was made on a fortified shelter where the airfield personnel were located, as a result of the attack, three foreign specialists supporting the F-16 were killed, in addition, 10 people from the engineering and technical service of the Ukrainian Air Force were killed. In addition, up to 30 people with injuries of varying severity were taken from the airfield to city medical institutions.
An extremely successful operation.
We believe that this significantly improves the negotiating environment.
The enemy stated in the morning that up to 700 drones of various types, not counting missiles, were launched during the night strike.
On the night of July 9, the Russian army launched a group attack on the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields, including using Kinzhal aeroballistic hypersonic missile systems. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with long-range air-launched high-precision weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and long-range strike unmanned aerial vehicles, on the infrastructure of military airfields," follows from a message on the department's Telegram channel.
All designated targets were hit, the Ministry of Defense noted.
In addition, over the course of the day, air defense systems shot down 226 enemy drones, nine guided aerial bombs, and four American-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets.
At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed ammunition depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in 135 districts.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on July 8, the Russian army struck the gas energy infrastructure involved in ensuring the operation of the military-industrial complex (MIC) of Ukraine. On the same day, the Russian Aerospace Forces struck a field ammunition depot of the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stationed near the village of Pushkarevka in the Sumy region.
[AFRICANEWS] The European Court of Human Rights delivered damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands accusing Moscow of atrocities in Ukraine dating back more than a decade.
Judges ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread violations of international law — from shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17 in 2014, to the murder, torture, rape, destruction of civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children after Moscow's full-scale invasion of 2022.
Families of the victims of the MH17 disaster see the decision as an important milestone in their 11-year quest for justice. The Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down on July 17, 2014, using a Russian-made Buk missile fired from territory in eastern Ukraine controlled by separatist rebels loyal to Moscow. All 298 passengers and crew were killed, including 196 Dutch citizens
The judges found that Russia's refusal to acknowledge its involvement in the Flight MH17 disaster also violated international law. Russia's failure to properly investigate ''significantly aggravated the suffering'' of the relatives and friends of the dead.
In May, the UN's aviation agency found Russia responsible for the disaster. The separatist conflict that broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014 killed about 14,000 people before Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
The ECHR is an important part of the Council of Europe, which is the continent's foremost human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... institution. The court's governing body expelled Moscow in 2022 in response to the all-out invasion.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the court can still deal with cases against Russia dating from before its expulsion and, legally, the country is still obliged to participate in the proceedings.
The court will rule on financial compensation at a later date but Russia's departure leaves little hope that damages will ever be collected.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
