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Despite government claims that the oil spill in Tuapse was localized, local residents claim that the fuel oil spill spread over a large area, and that volunteers are primarily cleaning it up. The consequences of the incident would have been less severe if the response had been more immediate.

The multinational EFES-2026 exercises will be held in Turkey, in which Azerbaijani military personnel will also participate.

Any actions aimed at causing harm to medical personnel, especially serious harm to their health, cannot be justified, stated the head of the reconciliation department at the Muftiate of Dagestan, stating that he considers it impossible to participate in reconciliation following the knife attack on doctors in Makhachkala.

Authorities consider the spills "local," but the oil products have already spread to nearby villages beyond Tuapse. In the village of Tyumensky, for example, residents have organized a coastal cleanup and are calling on volunteers to help.

Alexander Yezhikov was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 887 soldiers from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.

Activists marched in Zugdidi on the 515th day of daily protests, demanding the government's resignation, new parliamentary elections, and the release of political prisoners.

About half of the animals on a farm in the village of Kuli died due to a landslide, leaving residents without clothing, according to social media reports. Authorities confirmed damage to the farm.

Despite the decision to cover the beaches in Anapa with sand, fuel oil remains on the beaches and must be removed, volunteers stated, reporting the removal of a ton of fuel oil in one day.

Security forces were deployed to Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment this morning, where local residents are protesting the construction of a church. Patriarch Kirill's visit, scheduled to lay the cathedral's foundation stone, was cancelled.

Bacho Bebia and Davit Gogadze, who fought alongside the Ukrainian army, were killed in the fighting. Georgia's fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, called the absence of government representatives at the reception for the bodies of the soldiers unacceptable.

Law enforcement officials filed an administrative citation against two sisters, one of whom is a minor, for a video of them dancing in front of a cathedral in Rostov-on-Don. The older sister apologized to the police and admitted her guilt.

On the night of April 26, a fire broke out in a dormitory on Ashurova Street in Nalchik, injuring several people with carbon monoxide poisoning. The building, which has been declared unsafe, is without power. Residents complained that authorities are ignoring the need to relocate the residents; no officials have come even after the fire.

At least 4,460 soldiers from the North Caucasus Federal District and 4,590 from the Southern Federal District have been officially recognized as killed in the military operation in Ukraine.

Vladimir Drozhzhin and Vladimir Shagarov, mobilized from Georgievsk, were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 939 soldiers from Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed.

More than 2,500 cubic meters of contaminated soil have been removed from the Tuapse coastline, the district head reported. Telegram users expressed surprise that the published videos showed people with shovels, not specialized equipment, collecting the oil product.

Residents of 18 villages in the Charodinsky and Tlyaratinsky districts are currently without transportation.

Alexander Dolgov and Ivan Grushenkov from the Aleksandrovsky District were killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 937 soldiers from the Stavropol Krai have been officially recognized as killed.

Two slopes at a ski resort in Kabardino-Balkaria are closed today due to avalanche danger.

The defense does not intend to appeal the court's decision to sentence Yakub Belkhoroev, former head of the Ingush branch of the Social Insurance Fund and one of the Batalkhadzhin leaders, to 10 years in prison. Four other defendants in the embezzlement case received suspended sentences.

Last night, the military shot down drones in the Chertkovsky district of the Rostov region.