Top News for June 18

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Top news for June 17 ✹ In Bryansk Oblast, a bus carrying a children’s football team came under a drone strike. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that Ukrainian drones were not attacking the region at that moment. ✹ Putin left Moscow and St. Petersburg for the first time in seven months.…

Top news for June 18

✹ The largest attack by Ukrainian drones on Moscow. The oil refinery in Kapotnya is on fire again. See photos and videos from the capital. Read what was happening in the city (“oil rain” and zero alerts about the attack) and how people reacted to it (Zelensky, propaganda, and Meduza’s readers).

✹ The US and Iran signed a peace agreement. We analyzed the outcome of the conflict.

✹ Russia, according to Bloomberg’s data, will increase spending on the war by another 4-5 trillion rubles this year.

✹ Actress Davy Chase, who played the girl in the horror film “The Ring,” has died.

Text of the day. How dangerous is the fire at the oil refinery in Kapotnya for residents of Moscow and the Moscow region? Should people fear an explosion at the facility? And how can they protect themselves from combustion products in the air? We answer the most alarming questions about the burning plant.

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