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Journalist Hafiz Babali, convicted in Azerbaijan, lost his right to receive a disability pension after security forces blocked his bank accounts and failed to lift the restrictions after his sentence came into effect.

The Constitutional Court of Georgia has accepted for consideration a claim to dissolve three opposition parties.

Two more people have joined the opposition hunger strike outside the Georgian parliament in protest against the persecution of demonstrators.

Leninsky District authorities presented awards to the families of six soldiers killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,476 soldiers from the Volgograd Region have been officially recognized as killed.

Journalist Ulviyya Ali, who was arrested in Baku, was not allowed to meet with her lawyer because she resisted a body search, her mother said.

Military personnel neutralized two drones launched from Ukraine in the Volgograd region.

A Tbilisi court has fined and sentenced residents detained during a protest outside the parliament building to administrative detention. Zurab Menteshashvili, 71, charged with blocking a road, has been remanded in custody.

Danila Serikov was killed in combat in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 1,470 soldiers from the Volgograd region have been officially recognized as killed.

The military shot down drones in the Chertkovsky and Sholokhov districts of the Rostov region.

A Tbilisi court has remanded Droa movement leader Elene Khoshtaria in custody after she refused to pay bail.

Volgograd emergency services received a call about a bomb threat in a high-rise building. A previously convicted Volzhsky resident was arrested for making a false report and admitted to making the call while intoxicated.

Following the example of his father, Gevork Nersisyan, a court in Yerevan has arrested his son, Ambartsum, who is the nephew of Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, for a month.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 13 drones were shot down over the Volgograd Region. Governor Andrei Bocharov reported that debris from the downed drones fell on the grounds of the Frolovskaya electrical substation, where a fire broke out.

Russian citizen Artem Guselnikov was arrested in Georgia for participating in a protest. He said he attended in solidarity with the people of Georgia and his fellow countryman Anton Chechin, who was convicted of drug possession. Guselnikov has already been released and plans to return home.

The guilt of the former leaders of the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in crimes committed over a 35-year period has been proven, the prosecution stated. The prosecutors' lengthy indictment was prepared in advance, according to lawyer Siranush Sahakyan.

Alexander Bakhtin, Andrei Volkov, and two of their fellow countrymen from the Volgodonsk region were killed in combat. Since the beginning of the Russian operation in Ukraine, authorities have officially acknowledged at least 762 combatants from the Rostov region killed there.

Human rights activist Valery Borshchev, who worked in the war zone during the First Chechen War, has died at the age of 81.

Volunteers reported that new oil spills appeared near the village of Artyushchenko in the Temryuk district after the storm. Kuban authorities did not report any coastal cleanup efforts over the weekend.

Demonstrators in Tbilisi managed to symbolically block traffic on Rustaveli Avenue for a short time; after the protest, security forces detained some of its participants.

Convicted Russian citizen Anastasia Zinovkina has received medical care in prison and does not require inpatient treatment, the Georgian Penitentiary Service stated in response to activists' demands.