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Vladimir Varzar and Sergei Morozov from Kamyshin were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,695 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

During commemorative events marking the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of Chechens and Ingush, participants raised issues of the restoration of the Aukhovsky District, land distribution, and the government's lack of attention to these issues. Appeals to Putin made at the rally called for the need to determine the district's status, end the controversial practice of land transfers, and provide guarantees to prevent a repeat of the tragedies of the past.

Former police officers Kalogi Aziev and Alikhan Yusupov did not appear at the first hearing.

Umalatova's eight-year prison sentence has been postponed until 2032, when her child turns 14.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the sentence of former Azerbaijani diplomat Emin Ibrahimov. His defense intends to challenge the legality of Ibrahimov's criminal prosecution in the European Court of Human Rights.

The former state minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, sentenced in Baku to 20 years in prison, declined to appeal, explaining that he does not recognize the verdict as an act of justice.

The Krasnodar court has received a lawsuit from the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that land, houses, and business shares belonging to former State Duma deputy Rizvangadzhi Isaev and his relatives be forfeited to the state. The total value of the property exceeds 10 billion rubles.

Junior Lieutenant Valery Bagayev was killed in a military operation a week after being deployed to the combat zone. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 548 soldiers from North Ossetia have been officially recognized as killed.

The Kaspiysk mayor's office announced the installation of underground waste collection areas in areas where additional regular containers cannot be accommodated. Telegram users expressed skepticism about the new initiative, suggesting that the problem lies not in the number of containers but in the lack of timely waste collection.

The Ministry of Defense reported that three drones were shot down overnight over the Black Sea.

The Supreme Court upheld the decision to transfer the case of former Sochi Mayor Alexei Kopaigorodsky and his wife, who are accused of corruption, to a Moscow court.

Today, members of 30 Azerbaijani families who fled the village during the Karabakh conflict returned to the village of Khorovlu in the Jabrayil region.

Ivan Glushchenko from the Kamyzyak district was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 711 soldiers from the Astrakhan region have been confirmed killed.

The Court of Appeal rejected the appeal by the CEO of SVS Shipping, which organized the Seabridge ferry voyage from Trabzon to Sochi late last year, to extend his detention.

Seven UAVs, which were discovered after a massive attack on the Volgograd region, were destroyed by bomb disposal experts; their total mass in TNT equivalent was approximately 200 kg.

The case of former Finance Minister of the Rostov Region, Lilia Fedotova, will be heard by the Kirovsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don.

The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Krasnodar Territory estimated the damage to wildlife following the tanker accident in the Kerch Strait at 34.22 billion rubles.

Shikhamat Magomedov from Khasavyurt was killed in combat. Over the past four years, authorities have publicly named at least 1,826 Dagestani servicemen killed in Ukraine.

During the week of February 16–22, 2026, armed and terrorist attacks in the North Caucasus and Southern Federal Districts of Russia resulted in four casualties—two killed and two wounded. These are the results of a "Caucasian Knot" tally based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A group of convicted activists and journalists held in Baku's Penitentiary No. 2 in Azerbaijan have called on the European Commission to take concrete steps to implement European Parliament resolutions demanding the release of Azerbaijani political prisoners.