On the 160th day of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Russia, Russian troops continue their attempts to capture the neighboring country’s settlements. Ukraine’s armed forces and territorial defense units resist aggression. It is impossible to verify the statements of representatives of both sides of the conflict from independent sources. According to the UN, about 14 million Ukrainians have already left their homes. DW is following developments on Tuesday, August 2 (Moscow time).

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Latvian Saeima Foreign Affairs Committee recognized Russia as a “State that supports terrorism”, according to the country’s parliament website. The Committee forwarded the request for consideration at the next session of the Seimas.

“For many years, Russia has supported and financed terrorist regimes and organizations in various ways – directly and indirectly – such as the biggest supplier of weapons to the Assad regime in Syria and, for example, in the poisoning of the Skripal family or the downing of a flight. MH-17. Currently, Russia has chosen a similar tactic – brutal, immoral and illegal in Ukraine, using inaccurate and internationally banned weapons and ammunition, deliberately targeting civilians and public places, causing not only massive physical harm, but also seeking to demoralize and intimidate Ukrainian society,” he said. committee chairman Rihards Kols.

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Supreme Court of Russia recognized the Azov battalion as a “terrorist organization”according to the TASS agency.

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OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid and Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau visited Ukraine.

“We visited Bucha – a place of unthinkable cruelty. The war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine will not be forgotten. The perpetrators will be held accountable,” the Polish mission told the OSCE in a statement.

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France blames Russia for colony explosion for Ukrainian prisoners of war in the self-proclaimed “DPR” controlled Yelenovka. This stems from the Elysee Palace’s message about the conversation between the presidents of Ukraine and France, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky.

“A few days after the new massacre perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in Yelenovka, President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,” Macron’s press service said.

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The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine has compiled list of the ten most common “Russian” place nameswhich are recommended to be renamed first.

“After analyzing the situation in Ukraine’s toponymic space, the expert council drew attention to the fact that a significant number of proper names, denoting elements of the city’s spatial structure such as streets, squares, avenues, etc., are associated with the Russians, whose life and work are by the way, they have nothing to do with Ukraine, its history, science, culture and, in most cases, were not born here,” the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.

The most commonly used personalities associated with Russia in Ukrainian urban studies are cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, writers Alexander Pushkin, Yuri Lermontov (the list probably contains an error in the name of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. – Ed.), Vladimir Mayakovsky and Maxim Gorky, scientist Ivan Michurin, military figures Valery Chkalov, Alexander Suvorov, Alexander Matrosov and Vladimir Komarov.

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The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced detention of employees of a charitable organization in the Carpathians region, which sold cars brought in as assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to the investigation, representatives of the charitable organization imported goods and cars into Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid, after which they did not use them for their intended purpose, but sold them. The sale of at least three vehicles for US$20,000 (in terms of €19,500) was documented, the Attorney General’s Office said.

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The Russian Ministry of Justice has issued two manuals for investigators, judges and forensic experts on how to carry out a forensic examination in articles on “fake” and “discredit” the Russian army, writes “Kommersant” with reference to the documents. In the training manuals, the Ministry of Justice writes that “declaration of fact” refers to an article about “dissemination of deliberately false information”, and “discrediting” should be understood as “deliberate actions aimed at undermining confidence in state authorities, belittle your authority.”

If “the information is presented in the form of a statement of facts and events”, explains the Ministry of Justice, this “allows the law enforcer to establish its falsity or reliability”, explains the manual. And if a person expressed not a statement but an “opinion”, that “is a sign of another communicative action – namely, discrediting the use of the military”.

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Belgium as part of the implementation of sanctions against the Russian Federation, it froze assets owned by Russian companies and citizens worth 50.5 billion euros, local media reported, citing a statement from the country’s Ministry of Finance. This figure includes various financial assets, such as cash and shares, owned by a total of 1,229 individuals and 110 legal entities: Russian politicians, billionaires, banks and corporations, the country’s Ministry of Finance said.

According to Belgian media, €50.5 billion is a “surprisingly large amount” that far exceeds the authorities’ previous estimates. As De Morgen recalled, in July, European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said that Russian assets worth 13.8 billion euros were seized in the EU, most of that amount (more than 12 billion euros) was frozen for five years. member states, said it did not specify which.

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The planned by the Ukrainian authorities began evacuation of Kiev-controlled areas of the Donetsk region, said Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk. “The first train arrived this morning in Kropyvnytskyi. Women, children, the elderly, many people with limited mobility. All were received and resettled,” she said.

Russian Federation bombing reported in Sumy and Kharkiv regions

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On the morning of 2 August, Russian forces fired on the communities of Esman, Seredino-Budskaya and Yunakovskaya. Sumy region of mortars, says the head of the regional administration Dmitry Zhivitsky. According to him, there were no casualties or destruction.