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Nadezhdin detained as Enerhodar and Volhynia make news
Summary
A retrospective on 13 July 2026, when a Russian anti-war politician was detained and two earlier security-related announcements shaped the regional picture.
What happened on 13 July 2026 to Boris Nadezhdin, the Russian anti-war politician? He was detained over a video on his social media account that featured the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The detention came days after he was designated a "foreign agent". He was later released from a police station and was due to appear in court on 17 July.
The case belonged to the wider pattern of anti-war dissent in Russia. Demonstrations, petitions and open letters have followed the full-scale invasion of 24 February 2022, and a number of public figures have spoken out against the war.
Enerhodar, 12 July
The day before, on 12 July 2026, Rosatom head Alexey Likhachev said a Ukrainian drone attack on Enerhodar had killed four people and injured four others. Enerhodar is the Russian-controlled town that hosts the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.
Warsaw, 11 July
On 11 July 2026, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk marked the anniversary of Bloody Sunday by announcing plans for a Wall of Remembrance in Warsaw for identified victims of the Volhynia massacre. He said Poland would continue efforts to exhume and properly bury victims. The date refers to 11 July 1943, when units of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists–Ukrainian Insurgent Army attacked at least 99 Polish settlements in Wołyń Province.
