Vladimir Putin makes his remarks at the meeting with commanders of the Russian Navy. Meanwhile, Mediazona has confirmed the names of 233,199 Russian soldiers killed in the war with Ukraine: 200.zona.media

Vladimir Podkovyrkin, a loaber from Penza, who was abducted and sent to war, but managed to get out, has now been detained and is being sent back to the front (1/6)

Ukraine’s drone campaign has a novel target: Russia’s largest third-party marketplace, Wildberries. Warehouse hits already left 9 dead and 93 injured per official figures, and the damage is massive financially and symbolically. Here’s how it unfolded: en.zona.media/article/2026...

Two teenagers were sentenced to 8 years in a juvenile prison today for setting a helicopter on fire in Noyabrsk, Russia’s Far North. The boys were 13 and 14 at the time of the event, in 2024. Since the start of the war, over 240 minors were accused of sabotage: en.zona.media/article/2026... 🎥 Baza

Fuel availability has declined in several Russian regions over the last two weeks, in the aftermath of Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries. The situation worsened in the Chelyabinsk, Kemerovo, and Orenburg regions, the Krasnoyarsk Krai, as well as in Bashkortostan and Tuva (1/4)

Mediazona journalist, EPP winner Alla Konstantinova is convicted on criminal charges for violating the law on “foreign agents” and fined 50,000 rubles ($640). The case stemmed from Alla‘s refusal to submit the mandatory quarterly and semi-annual financial reports to the Ministry of Justice (1/5)

233 tys. potwierdzonych zgonów rosyjskich żołnierzy w Ukrainie. Po raz pierwszy jeden region przekroczył próg 10 tys. potwierdzonych poległych: Baszkortostan. Od 2024 roku przoduje w stratach w skali kraju, więc osiągnięcie tego progu było tylko kwestią czasu zona.media/article/2026...

233 000 morts confirmés parmi les militaires russes en Ukraine. Pour la première fois, une seule région franchit le cap des 10 000 morts confirmés : le Bachkortostan. Il est en tête des pertes du pays depuis 2024 — franchir ce seuil n’était donc qu’une question de temps zona.media/article/2026...

233.000 muertes confirmadas de militares rusos en Ucrania. Por primera vez, una sola región supera las 10.000 muertes confirmadas: Bashkortostán. Encabeza las pérdidas del país desde 2024, así que alcanzar este umbral era solo cuestión de tiempo zona.media/article/2026...

233.000 bestätigte Tote der russischen Armee in der Ukraine. Erstmals hat eine einzelne Region die Marke von 10.000 bestätigten Gefallenen überschritten: Baschkortostan. Die Region führt seit 2024 die Verlustliste des Landes an zona.media/article/2026...

Our casualty count keeps adding languages: it’s now live in Italian, with interactive infographics and regional breakdowns. Un conteggio indipendente delle perdite russe in Ucraina, aggiornato ogni due settimane. Ora anche in italiano: zona.media/article/2026...

233K confirmed Russian military deaths in Ukraine. For the first time, a single region has passed 10,000 confirmed deaths: Bashkortostan. It has led the country in losses since 2024, so hitting this threshold was only a matter of time Full report: en.zona.media/article/2026...

For four and a half years, Mediazona has counted Russia’s war dead: 230,000 names, verified one by one. At home, repression is daily news. This month, our payment processor cut off our Russian readers’ money entirely. Yours, no one can block: donate.zona.media/en

Bank card data shows over 85% of Moscow’s gas stations sold fuel in the past 24 hours, against just two thirds nationwide. In Crimea, Kirov, Tambov and Yakutia, nearly every second gas station has recorded no sales at all. Our map of the fuel crisis: en.zona.media/article/2026...

Dane o stratach rosyjskich w wojnie z Ukrainą są już dostępne w języku polskim! zona.media/article/2026... Infografika będzie aktualizowana co dwa tygodnie. Obecnie zawiera 230 600 nazwisk, w tym: - 84 362 wolontariuszy - 25 832 więźniów - 7345 oficerów

Drones attacked Russian refineries, fuel shortages followed—but how deep is the crisis/anxiety? We scanned thousands of drivers’ reviews on Yandex Maps and 2GIS maps: in the Irkutsk region alone they tripled, every 5th mentioning empty pumps or queues en.zona.media/article/2026...

Ukrainian driver Ibrahim Kudzhanov, 52, convicted of ties to the Aidar Battalion, died in a Russian prison colony. The cause of death was listed as a second heart attack and kidney failure “due to a critical deterioration in his condition” (1/4) Photo: Memorial

Hit Russian singer Liza Monetochka is sentenced to one year in absentia for violations of the “foreign agent” law, Mediazona correspondent reports from court (1/3) Photo: monetochkaliska/Instagram

Our full list of 230,000 KIA Russian soldiers is now available in English! 200.zona.media A searchable database with multiple filters which contains: - names - photos - locations - links - and more! You can also switch to map view and browse all of Russia from Kaliningrad to the Far East!

You know our bi-weekly updates on the Russian army’s losses in Ukraine, but that’s not all we do. In June, more than a third of EVERYTHING we published, 37%, was our own exclusive reporting: stories that exist nowhere else. Please support Mediazona: en.zona.media/article/2026...

Bashkortostán es la primera región rusa en superar las 10.000 muertes confirmadas en la guerra contra Ucrania. En total: 230.600 soldados muertos confirmados en.zona.media/article/2026... NUEVO: nuestra lista completa de nombres ya está disponible en inglés 200.zona.media

This week in our update of Russia’s losses in Ukraine: • An English translation of the full names list! 200.zona.media • A translation of our losses infographic to Polish: zona.media/article/2026... • Overall number—230,600 KIA soldiers: en.zona.media/article/2026...

Russia’s Military Court of Appeals upheld the 29-year sentence for anarchist Ruslan Sidiki, 38. Last year Sidiki, a Russian and Italian citizen, was convicted for derailing a train and attacking a military airfield. His story—in his own words: en.zona.media/article/2025...

Russia’s fuel crisis, deepened by continuing Ukrainian drone strikes on its refineries, has spread to 56 regions. Local authorities are capping sales, banning sales to gas cans and, in annexed Crimea, halting public sales altogether en.zona.media/article/2026...

A Russian “super-patriot” who backs the invasion of Ukraine was just charged with “discrediting the Russian army”... over a comment attacking Israel, posted in a VK group for discussing classical paintings. Meet Nina Pavlova, 47, of Perm 1/4

Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, says his agency advocated lowering the age of criminal liability to 12 years. (1/5) Photo: Natalya Shatokhina / News.ru / TASS

Maxim Kruglov, deputy chairman of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party and a former Moscow City Duma deputy, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison over two social media posts from April 2022 about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 1/4 📷Mediazona

Former Aeroflot CEO Mikhail Poluboyarinov was arrested in Moscow. Mediazona learned this from the decision of the city’s Tverskoy Court that has remanded Poluboyarinov into custody on charges of abuse of office (1/7) Photo: Andrey Lyubimov/RBK/TASS

La guerra de Rusia en Ucrania (1579 días) ha durado más que toda la Primera Guerra Mundial (1568 días). Aquí está nuestro recuento actualizado de las bajas rusas: zona.media/article/2026...

Russlands Krieg in der Ukraine (1579 Tage) dauert nun länger als der gesamte Erste Weltkrieg (1568 Tage). Hier unsere aktualisierte Zählung der russischen Verluste: zona.media/article/2026...