The mayor of the city of Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Krai, Rustyam Abushaev, who was put on the wanted list, recorded a video message in which he stated that he was at war in Ukraine. He posted the video on his Telegram channel. "Dear friends! At the moment I am in the zone of a special military operation. I made the decision to come here a long time ago, but I especially felt the urgent need when I participated in events for the families of the mobilized,” Abushaev said.

The journalists of "Mediazona" studied the statistics of some regional departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service and came to the conclusion that in 35 regions of the country in the colonies, about 17 thousand prisoners disappeared from the colonies. Journalists assume that most of them went to fight in Ukraine. The publication notes that not all regions publish statistics on the number of prisoners.

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In Sudan, the Rapid Reaction Forces attempted a military coup and clashed with the regular army On April 15, units of the Rapid Reaction Force announced that they had taken control of a number of key facilities in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. According to Reuters, they managed to occupy the presidential palace, the residence of the army commander and the international airport of Khartoum, which then stopped receiving flights.

Ksenia Hell was born in the GDR, studied in Moscow, and now works in the Hague court. We talked with her about Putin’s arrest and not only. Why did the International Criminal Court in The Hague focused on the deportation of children, and not on other war crimes, which Vladimir Putin may be involved? How is information about such crimes gathering? How does the procedure for issuing orders for arrests for heads of state work?

The Moscow prosecutor's office will conduct an inspection against the actor Danila Kozlovsky under the article on "discrediting" the Russian army. It is reported by TASS. Earlier, Vitaly Borodin, the head of the public organization Federal Project for Security and the Fight against Corruption, complained about the artist to the Prosecutor General's Office.

One of the administrators of the "pro-Russian" telegram channel Donbass Devushka, which published secret Pentagon and American intelligence documents from a recent leak, was former US Navy soldier Sarah Beals. She herself told The Wall Street Journal about this. According to Beals, she is one of 15 people "around the world" who keep the channel running. She declined to name these people. At the same time, Beals stressed that she did not publish the secret documents in the channel.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Russian politician Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison. He was found guilty on three counts - treason, "fake news" about the army, and carrying out the activities of an "undesirable organization." A large support group, including Western diplomats and Russian human rights activists, came to the announcement of the politician's verdict.

A court in Iran has sentenced 10 military men to various terms of imprisonment after finding them guilty of involvement in the crash of a Ukrainian airline passenger airliner in 2020. The longest sentence of 13 years was given to the operator of the Tor anti-aircraft missile system, who mistakenly identified a civilian airliner as an enemy target and, without coordination with the command, fired two missiles at it.