Russian forces shell
Bakhmut in
Donetsk Oblast with the
BM-27 UraganMLRS, killing three civilians and injuring three others. Six apartment blocks and six detached houses are also destroyed or damaged.
(Ukrinform)
Russian missiles strike
Kropyvnytskyi, damaging facilities owned by Kropyvnytskyi Flight Academy and
Air Urga. Five people are killed and 25 others are injured.
(Yahoo! News)
Authorities in
Hanover,
Germany, turn off heating and switch to cold showers in all public buildings, and also shut off public water fountains amid an
energy crisis after
Gazprom reduced gas supplies to Germany through its
Nord Stream pipeline.
(BBC News)
Authorities in
Berlin turn off lights at historic monuments and municipal buildings in the city in order to save electricity.
(The Guardian)
The
United States Congress passes the Chips and Science Act of 2022 in order to boost semiconductor production in the United States and also boost competition with
China. The bill will head to
PresidentJoe Biden for his signature.
(CNBC)
Russia hands over a protest note to the
Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as
Šiaulių bankas, the only bank authorised to process payments for
Kaliningrad rail transit, announced that it would phase out all payments in
Russian rubles in mid-August and ban all payments from Russia and Belarus, unless for
humanitarian purposes or in order to fulfil international obligations, on 1 September.
(LRT)
Cameras are allowed to film a criminal court case in
England and
Wales for the first time in history as a man, Ben Oliver, is sentenced to prison at
London's
Old Bailey for
manslaughter on live television.
(Reuters)
Science
Researchers using
AlphaFold have predicted the structures of 200 million
proteins from 1 million species, covering nearly every known protein on the planet.
(Nature)