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Work to pump fuel oil from the sunken parts of the ships will only begin after the storm season. Prolonged fuel oil pumping could lead to the collapse of Anapa as a resort, Telegram users stated.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Sochi resident Kirill Sidorov to 11 years in prison for transmitting photographs of the city's infrastructure to members of the Freedom of Russia Legion*.

Narek Samsonyan, co-author of the "Imnemnimi" podcast, who is on a 14-day hunger strike, was hospitalized twice in four days due to deteriorating health. Doctors advised him to end his 14-day hunger strike, but Samsonyan refused. After examination, he was returned to prison.

Activists have once again replaced the broken memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's Moscow home, but the temporary plaque has been destroyed again. A Muscovite fined for breaking the plaque dismissed the damage as an accident, while a resident of Politkovskaya's building claimed the temporary plaques were deliberately destroyed.

A new group of fighters trained at the Russian Special Forces University departed from Grozny Airport for the military operation zone in Ukraine. Among them are representatives from other regions.

The court is considering a lawsuit to determine the residence of the Smirnovs' youngest daughter. Her father has filed a motion to have his sons' residences considered in this case, said Anna Smirnova, a resident of the Moscow region. She believes Dmitry Smirnov, who hid the children in Dagestan, Chechnya, and North Ossetia, intends to seek child support.

Relatives of fighters buried in Nagorno-Karabakh are demanding that their bodies be exhumed and returned to Armenia for reburial. However, all letters addressed to the country's prime minister are being redirected to other agencies. At a protest outside the government building, the fighters' relatives demanded a personal meeting with Nikol Pashinyan on this issue.

Yevgeny Khrapach was killed in the military operation. Since its beginning, at least 902 fighters from Stavropol have been officially recognized as killed.

The European Commission has launched a procedure to suspend the visa-free regime for Georgian citizens holding diplomatic, service, and official passports under a new mechanism.

One house, which suffered the most severe damage, remains cordoned off.

The Primorsko-Akhtarsky District Municipal Council of Kuban dismissed Maxim Bondarenko due to the governor's loss of confidence.

Another power outage left residents of dozens of streets in Makhachkala without power and heat. Dagestan authorities are obligated to address long-standing utility problems; residents' patience is wearing thin, bloggers noted.

Participants in the October 2023 mass riots accused Makhachkala airport staff of "hiding" passengers from Israel; workers were forced to barricade themselves indoors.

Investigators in Ingushetia have uncovered an additional case of embezzlement of over 85 million rubles in budget funds allocated for the construction of the Plievo-Novaya electrical substation in the Nazran district.

Rosaviatsiya has imposed flight restrictions at airports in Grozny, Magas, Vladikavkaz, and Volgograd, with a drone alert also in effect in Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, and Stavropol. Residents of Volgograd and Volzhsky reported a series of explosions.

The death toll from the drone attack on port terminals in the village of Volna in Krasnodar Krai has risen to three, and the number of injured has reached eight, the regional task force reported.

Dozhd* journalist Valeria Kichigina has been accused of spreading fake news about the army. One of the publications she is accused of publishing concerns events in Bucha, while the second concerns the presence of Russian troops in South Ossetia after the 2008 Five-Day War. This is the first instance of the "fake news" statute being invoked for statements unrelated to the South Ossetian Military District, and it demonstrates the expansion of the statute's scope to cover other conflicts involving Russian troops.

Human body parts were found at the site of a drone attack in the village of Novaya Adygeya, Takhtamukaysky District. The governor of Krasnodar Krai also reported two fatalities at the port terminals in the village of Volna, Temryuksky District.

Three years after the death of Kurban Dalgatov in the Sovietsky District Department of Internal Affairs in Makhachkala, most of the security officers involved have yet to be convicted, with five of the accused being sent to the special military unit. Dalgatov's family was outraged by the lengthy investigation into the case, despite officials' assurances that the perpetrators would be punished.

Supporters of European integration gathered outside the Georgian parliament for the 420th day in a row. Iranian citizens joined the protest today.