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)