The Russian authorities underestimated the real scale of forest fires eight times. This was announced to the "agency" by the head of the forest department of the Russian "Greenpeace" Alexei Yaroshenko. According to the Distance Monitoring System of the ISDM -ROSCOUSE (the data of the spaceships), which was analyzed by Greenpeace, by May 10, fires were recorded in the territory of more than 5 million hectares, which is comparable to Slovakia or Denmark.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced to two years conditionally 61-year-old Irina Tsybanev, who left a note on the grave of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Rotonda reports . The woman was found guilty of abuse of burial places based on political hatred (paragraph “b” of part 2 of article 244 of the Criminal Code). Tsybaneva was also appointed two years of a trial period. The state prosecution requested for a woman three years conditionally. Tsybaneva pleaded guilty.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine broke through the defense of the Russian army at Bakhmut and Soledar, Russian "military commissars" and the Ukrainian military reported. “We will assume that the counterattack of the enemy began,” wrote the Z-blogger Evgeny Poddubny.

What's happened Great Britain put the Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine with a radius of action up to 250 km, said British Defense Minister Ben Wallace. According to him, part of the missiles is already in Ukraine, the part is on the way. Wallace emphasized that Storm Shadow will be used only in the “sovereign territory of Ukraine”. CNN with reference to a senior Western official wrote that Ukraine promised to use missiles only on its territory.

Russia closed a significant part of the statistics, but scientists gained access to data on oil export and studied how the war influenced it. At first they found out that the discounts on Russian oil are much less than it was commonly believed (“important stories” talked about this here ).

In 2022, the European Union countries through Russia were sent to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia of double goods prohibited for import in the Russian Federation, worth about $ 2 billion. About half of these products (in monetary terms) remained in Russia, writes Financial Times. Journalists came to this conclusion by analyzing data on trade between the EU and the mentioned countries. The “settled” products in Russia can be used for military or intelligence purposes.

Employees of the FSB of North Ossetia detained a 19-year-old resident of Yekaterinburg. He is suspected of his intention to go to Ukraine to fight against Russia, the Republican Office of the FSB reported . A criminal case on the preparation for state treason was opened against the teenager (Article 275 using part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code).