The 1st Western District Military Court of St. Petersburg sentenced 59-year-old Elena Komaricheva to ten years in a general regime penal colony, who, on the instructions of swindlers, tried to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by SOTAVision and RusNews correspondents . Komaricheva was found guilty in the case of a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code), Komaricheva's defense attorney Dinar Idrisov told SOTAVision .

The 2nd Western District Military Court of Moscow sentenced 15-year-old Arseny Turbin from the city of Livny in the Oryol Region to five years of imprisonment in a correctional colony, the human rights organization Memorial reports . The information was confirmed to Mediazona by the schoolboy's mother, Irina Turbina. The teenager was found guilty in the case of participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).

At a press conference following his visits to Pyongyang and Hanoi, Vladimir Putin compared sanctions against the DPRK to the siege of Leningrad. A video of the event was published on the Kremlin's Telegram channel. "Some sanctions against North Korea, to put it mildly, look very strange. As you know, I come from Leningrad, and everyone knows what Leningrad went through during World War II <…>. It was the blockade, when people were starved to death. <…> My brother practically died of hunger.

One of the witnesses in the case of Salikh Osmanov, a resident of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria, convicted in the case of attempted sabotage, worked as an operative in the republican department of the Federal Drug Control Service. This was reported by the Memorial Center for the Protection of Human Rights, citing an independent investigation submitted by Osmanov's lawyers. As Memorial specifies, the detective's name is A.M.

Two sons of the head of Chechnya, 17-year-old Eli Kadyrov and 16-year-old Adam Kadyrov, secretly married relatives of Ramzan Kadyrov's closest associates. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta Evropa. According to the publication, Eli Kadyrov's wife was the eldest granddaughter of State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov, and 16-year-old Adam Kadyrov was married to the daughter of Chechen senator Suleiman Geremeyev.

The Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg has sent two defendants in the case of a photo shoot at the city's Bolsheokhtinskoye Cemetery — photographer Sergei Yevstyukhin and artist Kristina Rozhkova — to pretrial detention for 29 days. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts.

The Investigative Committee's Moscow office reported the death of a man due to a falling tree during a hurricane in the capital; an investigation is underway. Later, the Moscow Health Department clarified to Interfax that two people died during the hurricane. Another 18 people were hospitalized in city hospitals, three of them in serious condition, the department added. Among those hospitalized were four children.

The Tula Regional Court sentenced a 28-year-old resident of the city of Donskoy to 12 years in prison, accused of sabotage due to the arson of a relay cabinet. This was reported by the court's press service. According to the publication Myslo , this is Vladislav Shubin. The court found that Shubin "had a negative attitude" toward the Russian invasion of Ukraine and after it began, he began to "actively" follow what was happening on Telegram.

The Tagilstroevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil granted the petitions for parole of former employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Irkutsk Region Alexey Agapov , Alexey Mednikov and Anton Erokhin . People of Baikal drew attention to the court's decisions.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Daniil Klyuka, a drawing teacher from the Lipetsk region, to 20 years in prison at a visiting session in Lipetsk. This was reported by a support group for the political prisoner. According to the case file on the court's website, Klyuka was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and aiding terrorist activity (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).

The South Korean government has decided to reconsider the ban on direct arms deliveries to Ukraine following Vladimir Putin's visit to the DPRK and his signing of a partnership agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the South Korean Yonhap news agency reported .

The Southern District Military Court has sentenced two defendants in a case of preparing assassination attempts on pro-Russian politicians in Crimea. This was reported by RIA Novosti Krym and Vesti Krym, citing an FSB press release. The first defendant was sentenced to ten years in prison, the second to nine and a half years in a maximum security penal colony, state-controlled media reported. Both defendants were also fined 500,000 rubles.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Orsk sentenced former Wagner PMC mercenary Ruslan Magdiev to seven years in a maximum security penal colony for beating a man to death after returning from the war. The Orenburg Regional Court upheld the sentence, Kommersant reports . According to investigators, in November 2023, Magdiev was drinking with a friend in his girlfriend's apartment. At night, the alcohol ran out, and the company went to drink beer at the Mechta cafe.

At night, Russia used missiles and drones to strike Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, Ukrenergo reports . According to the company, this is already the seventh major attack on the Ukrainian energy system - energy facilities in four regions of the country were damaged: Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv and Donetsk regions. As Ukrenergo writes, seven people who work in the energy sector were also injured in the shelling. They are currently hospitalized, one of them is in serious condition.

A criminal case under the article on military "fakes" (paragraph "d" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) was opened against writer Mikhail Zygar for one post on Instagram - about the murders of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has begun to consider the case against Mikhail Zygar in absentia.