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Officers of the Internal Security Agency of Poland have detained a Belarusian whom they suspect of being part of a Russian spy network in Poland.

The HeMo: Ukrainian Heritage Monitoring Lab has recorded damage to 55 cultural heritage buildings in Odesa following the Russian missile attacks in July. Since 28 July, a team from different cities in Ukraine, including Lviv, Drohobych, Kharkiv, Kherson and Kyiv, has been working on documenting the damage caused by Russian missiles in Odesa.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Aug. 1 that it had caught a corrupt official, who demanded bribes from contractors for the repair of military barracks in Odesa Oblast.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Head of Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), intended to take Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov captive during his attempted military uprising.

Alexander Lukashenko, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus, claims that Yevgeniy Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), has arrived in Belarus. Source: Lukashenko at the ceremony of awarding top military officers with shoulder straps, as reported by Belarusian media outlet BELTA.

Putin confirmed the death of Russian pilots during the rebellion The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, recognised the death of Russian pilots during the rebellion of the mercenaries of the Wagner Group.

US intelligence believes that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), had been planning to challenge the Russian military leadership for quite some time. Source: CNN, citing sources Details: According to those briefed, the ultimate aim of Prigozhin's plans was unclear.

The leader of Russia’s Wagner mercenary company Yevgeny Prigozhin in a video released early on June 24 claimed he had taken control of military facilities in Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, including the headquarters of Russia’s Southern Military District and a nearby military airfield.

The Russian Armed Forces have been ordered to "neutralize those who organized the rebellion,” Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said in an address on June 24, after news emerged overnight that Wagner mercenaries had crossed into Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing the greatest threat to his authority in two decades after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner paramilitary group and Putin’s former ally, launched an apparent insurrection.