"I am just a foot soldier," Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov told the Russian president during his visit to the Special Forces University in Grozny. Putin, in turn, noted that "we are all foot soldiers, we are all in the same position in this sense."

Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Chechnya. At the Grozny airport, he was met by the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, along with members of the regional government and heads of law enforcement agencies.

About 20 representatives of the Chechen diaspora, Austrian activists and Ukrainian refugees held a protest near the German embassy in Vienna. They expressed their negative reaction to the fact that the German authorities sent to Russia the intelligence agent Vadim Krasikov, who received a life sentence for the murder of the former Chechen field commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the Agro 07 gardening farm in the village of Germenchik in the Urvan district of Kabardino-Balkaria. He was accompanied by the Plenipotentiary Representative in the North Caucasus Federal District Yuri Chaika, the head of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture Oksana Lut and the head of the region Kazbek Kokov.

A Chinese correspondent asked questions to the commander of "Akhmat" Apti Alaudinov about the retreat and the capture of Chechens. He noted that only "TsIPSO" and "pro-Ukrainian" Telegram channels wrote about this, and his military is still holding the positions they occupied before the border breakthrough.

Obligations to Armenia within the CSTO remain unchanged, there are no alternative guarantors of stability for the republic. This was stated by the director of the first department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikael Agasandyan.

The family of the Chairman of the Government of Ingushetia Vladimir Slastenin has moved to Europe. In particular, his son Anton and his wife Irina live in Switzerland. They also travel to other European countries, as evidenced by their photos on social networks. At the same time, Slastenin tells the residents of Ingushetia and Russia about "education and love for the homeland."

American billionaire Elon Musk said that he did not give the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, a Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup truck.

The Russian President will visit Azerbaijan on August 18. The heads of the two states, Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Putin, will discuss the Armenian-Azerbaijani settlement. This is stated in the materials for the visit of the Russian President.

A lawsuit was filed with the Constitutional Court of Georgia on behalf of investigative journalists: editor of "Mtis Ambebi" Gela Mtivlishvili and founder of "Studio Monitori" Nino Zuriashvili. This is the fourth lawsuit against the foreign agent law adopted by parliament.