Last week we published our losses count in Chinese and Portuguese. That brings it to nine languages. 中文: zona.media/article/2026... Português: zona.media/article/2026... 236,066 names, each verified individually. Please share it with your readers as we keep this work going

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上周，我们首次以中文发布了俄乌战争中俄军阵亡人数统计，反响很好。 236,066个姓名，全部逐一核实。中文读者现在也可以查阅完整统计。 zona.media/article/2026... 1/3

上周，我们首次以中文发布了俄乌战争中俄军阵亡人数统计，反响很好。 236,066个姓名，全部逐一核实。中文读者现在也可以查阅完整统计。 zona.media/article/2026... 1/3

A car bomb exploded near Yekaterinburg, seriously injuring Vladimir Tkachuk, creator of the Upyr FPV drone and director of the Urals Drone Factory. His driver was killed 1/3

At least 17 people were killed and another 44 were injured in Kyiv and the surrounding region as a result of overnight Russian shelling, according to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

Yevgeny Cijen crossed from Estonia into Russia in February 2024 to visit relatives. Six “carousel arrests” for petty hooliganism and six months in a migrant jail later, he got 13 years for espionage. His father was killed fighting for the Russian army en.zona.media/article/2026...

Father died for a Russian passport, son got 13 years in Russian prison. How the Ukraine war and an espionage case tore up one Moldovan family

Mediazona has established the circumstances of the detention of Yevgeny Cijen, a 26-year-old Moldovan citizen whom the Moscow City Court sentenced in February 2026 to 13 years in a...

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Yevgeny Cijen crossed from Estonia into Russia in February 2024 to visit relatives. Six “carousel arrests” for petty hooliganism and six months in a migrant jail later, he got 13 years for espionage. His father was killed fighting for the Russian army en.zona.media/article/2026...

Father died for a Russian passport, son got 13 years in Russian prison. How the Ukraine war and an espionage case tore up one Moldovan family

Mediazona has established the circumstances of the detention of Yevgeny Cijen, a 26-year-old Moldovan citizen whom the Moscow City Court sentenced in February 2026 to 13 years in a...

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Putin promptly signed the bill adopted by Duma in July targeting anti-war Russians abroad. Anyone with a criminal conviction or unpaid “political” fines loses their bank accounts. Also banned: property deals, travel passports, marriage, notary services en.zona.media/article/2026...

No income in Russia, no property deals, no passports. The new restrictions facing Russians who left

On July 22, Russia’s State Duma is set to hold the second reading of a package of two bills targeting Russians who have left the country amid the Ukraine war and have criminal or a...

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Exclusive: seven of Russia’s largest banks (Sber, VTB, Promsvyazbank and others) moved to state-issued TLS certificates this week. No major browser trusts those—so now the govt is asking people to install root certs themselves. And it can expose users: en.zona.media/article/2026...

HTTPState. Seven Russian banks have moved to a certificate authority run by the state, which is now asking users to install its root on their own devices

This week, the websites of major Russian banks—Sber, VTB, Rosselkhozbank, T-Bank, Uralsib, Promsvyazbank and Bank Saint Petersburg—began serving TLS certificates issued by Russia’s...

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Politician Boris Nadezhdin announced that he had left Russia. In mid-July, news came that he’d been barred from leaving Russia because of a Federal Bailiff Service ruling. Nadezhdin didn’t specify how he left the country (1/4) Video: Boris Nadezhdin’s Telegram

Three people killed, and 15 injured in an explosion near a summer restaurant terrace in central Moscow on Saturday evening, according to police. The National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) confirms it was a result of a terrlrist attack (1/5) Video: Baza

Mediazona统计的俄军在乌克兰战争中的阵亡人数数据库现已推出中文等多种语言版本。 我们每两周更新一次数据。团队会逐一核实每一条阵亡信息，并将确认无误的记录加入数据库，尽可能还原这场战争造成的真实代价。 欢迎查看我们的报告，也请帮忙转发分享。 zona.media/article/2026...

Desde 2022, a Mediazona confirma, nome por nome, as mortes de militares russos na guerra contra a Ucrânia. Nossa lista nominal já reúne 236.066 nomes, cada um verificado em fontes abertas. O relatório agora está disponível em português: zona.media/article/2026...

Mediazona统计的俄军在乌克兰战争中的阵亡人数数据库现已推出中文等多种语言版本。 我们每两周更新一次数据。团队会逐一核实每一条阵亡信息，并将确认无误的记录加入数据库，尽可能还原这场战争造成的真实代价。 欢迎查看我们的报告，也请帮忙转发分享。 zona.media/article/2026...

Our bi-weekly update of Russian losses in Ukraine is out! With 236,000 deaths overall, Bashkortostan is maintaining the lead among russian regions: 10,300. We also launched two new languages: Chinese and Portuguese. Please, spread the word: en.zona.media/article/2026...

A Moscow court sentenced science journalist Darya Shipacheva to 12 years for treason. Nobody outside the courtroom knows what she is supposed to have done: the 90-minute trial was closed, and the charges have never been made public. Here’s our report: en.zona.media/article/2026...

Science journalist Darya Shipacheva pleaded guilty and cooperated with investigators. A Moscow court just gave her 12 years anyway, exactly what prosecutors asked for. The closed-door treason trial took 90 minutes, and no details were disclosed en.zona.media/article/2026...

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)

Hardly any grotesque statement gets retracted in Russia these days, officials just double down. But Roskomnadzor, the censorship agency, is now so image-conscious it somehow disowned its own guy over Western influence on school notebooks en.zona.media/article/2026...

A threat to public safety. Two Russian news media editors fined for quoting a censorship official’s critique of “anime and Spider‑Men” notebooks

Part 9 of article 13.15 of the Administrative Offences Code punishes the spreading of knowingly false information under the guise of reliable reports, where doing so creates a thre...

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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...

In other Ukraine war news: Russian lawmakers approved free IVF for war widows, but only for 5 years after the husband’s death, and only if they don’t remarry. The husband must have given notarised consent while alive

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)

In 2020, someone scrawled “Bitch” on her fence after she reported on poor quality of food for children in a closed Siberian town. She left for the US. Now a court back home has fined her for attending anti-war rallies and Navalny memorials, in Miami en.zona.media/article/2026...

The long grip. Ex‑journalist from a Siberian town living in Miami fined over photos and videos from anti‑war rallies and Navalny memorials in the US

The Zheleznogorsk city court in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia has fined Tatyana Nikiforova, a former local journalist, 10,000 roubles, or about $125, under the administrative a...

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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)

Russia is tightening the grip over those who left the country amid the invasion of Ukraine. A new bill would freeze convicted émigrés’ bank accounts, void their powers of attorney, and bar them from selling property—or even getting a new passport en.zona.media/article/2026...

No income in Russia, no property deals, no passports. The new restrictions facing Russians who left

On July 22, Russia’s State Duma is set to hold the second reading of a package of two bills targeting Russians who have left the country amid the Ukraine war and have criminal or a...

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“Discrediting the army” cases become routine in Russian courts. Among the latest: a three-year-old Telegram message about Wagner PMC, comments blaming the military for internet blackouts—and words spoken in a drug clinic corridor en.zona.media/article/2026...

The price of a grumble. Three Russians fined exactly $380 each by courts across the country for “discrediting” the army

The going rate for muttering is 30,000 roubles, or $380 at the current rate. A remark nobody bothered to write down, a three-year-old message about Wagner PMC and two complaints ab...

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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

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...

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...