The authorities of the Sumy region began evacuating residents of the cities of Belopole and Vorozhba. This was reported by the press service of the regional administration. The evacuees will be placed in other parts of the Sumy region. According to regional authorities, the Russian army shelled border areas 36 times during the day. The Belopol community suffered the most - 42 explosions were recorded there. Belopole and Vorozhba are located 20 kilometers from the border with Russia.

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced five men to 11 to 16 years in a maximum security colony in cases of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to TASS by the Public Relations Center (PSC) of the FSB. The longest sentence - 16 years in prison - was given to Nikolai Petrovsky. Sergei Kotov was sentenced to 15 years.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested Jahangir Khalilov, the press service of the city courts reports . As the Investigative Committee clarifies , he leads the convoy of Taxi LLC, whose bus fell into the Moika River on May 10. Khalilov is accused of providing services that do not meet safety requirements (Part 3 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code).

In Belgorod and its suburbs, seven people were injured as a result of Ukrainian shelling. This was reported by local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. According to him, two men received severe head injuries, four were taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds. Another one received medical assistance on the spot and refused hospitalization.

In Samara, a criminal case was opened due to the posts of a schoolboy who posted a photo with a Nazi salute during the Victory Parade and took pictures about Adolf Hitler. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The student posted circles and photos on his Telegram channel for eight subscribers, the title of which mentioned the mobile game Among Us . They were posted in the city public page “ChP Samara”. “Today is a sad day.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined musician Andrei Makarevich 30 thousand rubles because of the “foreign agent” signs. This was reported by court representatives. This is Makarevich’s second fine in a year under this article (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). What he was connected with was not specified in court. The court has not yet published a ruling in his case .

The Moscow City Court replaced the real sentence with a suspended sentence for the administrator of the telegram channel “Kremlin Mamkoved” Sergei Sadovov. This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts. In February, he was sentenced to two years and six months in a general regime colony in the case of extortion from Rostec top manager Vasily Brovko, the husband of Tina Kandelaki (clauses “a”, “d” of Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code).

Tolyatti resident Polina Yevtushenko, accused of preparing for treason, was sent to a punishment cell for eight days in early May. She herself wrote about this in a letter to a Kholod correspondent. 25-year-old Polina Yevtushenko was detained in July 2023. She is being held in a pre-trial detention center located on the territory of Samara IK-15. The girl said that she was in the punishment cell from May 2 to May 10.

St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov mentioned the war in Ukraine while awarding awards to passers-by who participated in rescuing the passengers of a drowning bus. His speech is quoted by Fontanka. “Today we are also heroes, because we are helping our soldiers who are taking part in a special military operation. Today Russia is not at war with the Ukrainians, Americans, British, French - no. Today Russia is at war with world evil,” the official said at the ceremony.

The former head of the police department of the city of Sosnovoborsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Vyacheslav Zverev, died in the war, the city group “Overheard” reported . He was convicted of beating a detainee and was probably recruited into the colony, Mediazona noted. In the obituary post in Overheard, 39-year-old Zverev is not directly called a police officer.

The lawyer of 25-year-old Alexey Grigoriev, who was arrested in the case of preparing to arson a military registration and enlistment office in Orsk, received a letter from his client in which he talks about torture in the Orenburg pre-trial detention center. A copy of the letter was published by SOTAvision. Grigoriev is a resident of Novotroitsk, the FSB department for the Orenburg region reported on his detention and arrest on May 22, 2023.

Based on the jury’s verdict, the Specialized Interdistrict Court for Criminal Cases of Astana sentenced the former Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Kuandyk Bishimbayev in the case of the murder of his wife Saltanat Nukenova. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison. This became known from a broadcast from the hearing on the court’s YouTube channel. Bishimbayev was found guilty of murder with extreme cruelty and torture of his wife.

The Primorsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent Nikolai Trofimov, accused of damaging Russian flags and Victory banners, to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the unified press service of the city courts. According to investigators, 45-year-old Trofimov poured black paint on flags hanging on houses on Korolev Avenue twice - on May 4 and May 9. According to surveillance video posted by police, an unknown man shot paint at them from a medical syringe.

The investigation group Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) called the version of the Russian Ministry of Defense that the entrance to a high-rise building in Belgorod on May 12 destroyed a fragment of a downed Ukrainian Tochka-U missile as unlikely. This version was outlined by CIT founder Ruslan Leviev in a daily military report on Michael Naki’s YouTube channel.

The former head of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, wrote a petition for pardon, Russia Today claims . The propaganda channel posted the supposed text of the petition dated April 19. Liliya Chanysheva’s lawyer Ramil Gizatullin told 7x7 that although he himself had not seen the document, he “does not doubt its authenticity.” The petition is written in Chanysheva’s handwriting, the defense lawyer added.