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A gas cylinder exploded in a prison colony located in the Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd; four prisoners were hospitalized with burns.

A Central Asian citizen intended to kill a high-ranking military officer in Rostov-on-Don using a homemade explosive device. According to the FSB, he was preparing a terrorist attack on orders from the Ukrainian special services. The suspect has been arrested.

Bulat Bekbayev was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 581 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

The Ministry of Defense reported the interception of 74 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles over Russian regions last night. 22 of them were destroyed in the Rostov Region.

In the Orlovsky district of the Rostov region, as a result of a UAV attack, an electrical substation was damaged and a fire broke out.

Astrakhan Region Governor Igor Babushkin announced the decision not to restore the building on Lyakhova Street, where the entrance collapsed. According to him, some residents received compensation for their apartments, while the rest will be resettled to housing from the temporary housing stock and will also receive compensation.

After a drone attack in Salsk, a car caught fire, the driver died. In addition, a private house was damaged in the city, and a fire broke out at the railway station.

On the wall of heroes, where portraits of participants of the Great Patriotic War are placed, the management of the Sevastopol Marine Aquarium Museum placed a portrait of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. This was written on social networks, after which an unknown man removed the portrait. The museum management returned it back.

Security forces in Abkhazia detained Georgian citizen Vladimir Shulaia and handed him over to Russian law enforcement agencies as a suspect in a murder case. A Georgian lawyer suggested that the detainee would be forced to sign a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry.

The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned the sentence of Dmitry Dyba, who was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor for a donation to the Anti-Corruption Foundation*. The case was sent back for a new trial.

A court in Makhachkala sentenced a resident of Dagestan to a real term, finding her guilty of selling her newborn daughter. The woman received a deferred sentence until her first child turns 14.

Sochi resident Olga Eskova, who was arrested for 15 days for a pro-Ukrainian comment in a messenger, was not released after the end of her arrest. The woman remains in a mental hospital, from where she was taken from a special detention center for administrative detainees.

Supporters of Georgia's European integration have once again blocked traffic outside the parliament in central Tbilisi, demanding new parliamentary elections and the release of political prisoners.

Rescuers evacuated two climbers from the Bezengi Gorge who were injured during a rockfall. The victims are being treated by doctors in Nalchik.

A torn banner with a portrait of Akhmat Kadyrov in the Grozny village of Staraya Sunzha became the reason for the detention of a minor local resident, the opposition Telegram channel claims.

US troops are taking part in the multinational NATO military exercise Agile Spirit 2025 in Georgia despite Washington's review of its strategic relationship with Tbilisi. The exercises at a training ground near Tbilisi will last until August 8.

Krasnodar resident Vladislav Solokhin was sentenced to a fine for comments calling for the "destruction of symbols of the current government."

Kazbek Digoyev from the Alagir district was killed in combat. Since the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have named at least 466 servicemen killed there.

There were no injuries as a direct result of the collapse of the building in Astrakhan; the only person hospitalized was taken to the hospital due to stress, authorities reported.

The victims' side insisted on tougher punishment, but each of the two guides had their prison terms reduced by six months.