A Russian drone crashed into a 25-story building in the Solomensky district of Kyiv. According to the mayor of the city, Vitaliy Klitschko, one person died. Four more, according to city authorities, were injured. Apartments from the 17th to 21st floors were damaged. It is specified that a fire broke out on the 20th floor of the building. Rescuers evacuated more than a hundred people from the attacked house.

The Pacific Fleet Military Court sentenced a resident of Vladivostok to five and a half years in prison in the case of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by the press service of the court. According to Kommersant, the accused’s name is Bogdan Davydenko, he is 18 years old. The young man was arrested on September 9, 2023, when he was still a minor.

On October 10, the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Chelyabinsk resident Alexander Plotnikov to six years in prison because of a comment in a telegram. His wife Anastasia reported this to OVD-Info. Plotnikov was found guilty in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of the words “Finally! At least someone took on the bandits in uniform,” which he wrote on June 23 under a video of shooting at a police car in Makhachkala.

The court arrested a 58-year-old resident of Korkino, who shot into a crowd of men from a surrounded house during the riots. This was reported by the Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Chelyabinsk Region. The name of the court and the name of the arrested person were not specified by the security forces. A criminal case was opened against the man for attempted murder of two people (part 3 of article 30, paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code).

The St. Petersburg Garrison Court sentenced up to six years in prison to four hackers associated with the REvil group. A Kommersant correspondent reported this from the courtroom. Artem Zaets was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, Alexey Molozemtsev was sentenced to five years in prison. Both were found guilty of illegal circulation of means of payment (Part 2 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code).

The Naro-Fominsk City Court of the Moscow Region ordered a ban on certain actions of rapper Guf (Alexei Dolmatov) in a case of robbery committed by a group of persons (points “a”, “d”, part 2 of Article 161 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by TASS and TV channel 360.ru. According to the authors of the telegram channel “112”, on the morning of October 23, Guf hit a man on the head near a bath complex in Aprelevka near Moscow.

Kim Jong Un with soldiers of the North Korean army. Photo: Reuters According to South Korean intelligence, 3,000 North Korean soldiers had already arrived in Russia by October 23, with plans to send up to 12,000 troops to participate in the war against Ukraine. The Ukrainian side has published a video allegedly showing North Korean soldiers at the Sergeevsky training ground in the Russian Far East.

Photo: @teamnavalny On October 21, the Navalny team published photos from graffiti at a white building at the underpass - with the inscriptions of Navalny and Putin - War and Poverty. The building was located on the Voznesensky tract in Kazan. Soon there were reports about the interrogation of the local opposition and the detention of a 15-year-old teenager. "Mediazona" tells everything that is known about this.

Banker Alexander Zheleznyak announced on his Facebook that he had decided to leave the Anti-Corruption Foundation Inc. (ACF). “After the release of FBK’s response to the “investigation” of Maxim Katz, I also want to say a few words of my own. This “investigation,” in which my name and the names of my partners with whom I have worked for more than 20 years are mentioned many times, is built on lies, manipulation and forgery.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky refused to receive UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in Kyiv because of his participation in the BRICS summit in Kazan. A Ukrainian high-ranking official told AFP about this. “After Kazan, he [Guterres] wanted to come to Ukraine, but the president did not confirm his visit because of the “humiliation” of international law that was allowed in Kazan,” the AFP source said. Zelensky’s office did not officially comment on the refusal.

The Ministry of Justice expanded the list of “foreign agents” and included the Astra publication in it. In addition, the register included blogger Anton Hardin, Yabloko party member Nikolai Kavkazsky, literary critic Oleg Lekmanov and Udmurt activist Artem Medvedev. Astra launched in 2022 after the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

Governor of the Vologda Region Georgy Filimonov has prepared a bill that will allow alcohol markets to sell goods only two hours a day - from 12:00 to 14:00. This is reported by Kommersant, which studied this document. According to Kommersant, the rules will apply both on weekdays and during the New Year holidays. On holidays, the sale of alcohol will be completely prohibited. The head of the Vologda region plans that the initiative will come into force on March 1, 2025, if it is adopted.

Photo: Poisk_in_ua, ne_zhdi_novosti / telegram In mid-September, in the war in Ukraine, authoritative volunteers Dmitry Lysakov (“Goodwin”) and Sergey Gritsai (“Ernest”) were killed in the Z-community. They openly criticized their commanders and shortly before the death recorded a video message in which they said that their unmanned intelligence group was disbanded, and experienced operators were sent to battle as ordinary attack aircraft.

The deputy of the Sobin District Council of the Vladimir region, together with friends, was held by three people in slavery on his car wash. This was reported by the Office of the Investigative Committee for the region. According to investigators, men were kept on the territory of car wash in the city of Sobinka since February 2022, violence was applied to them (part 3 of Article 127.2 of the Criminal Code).

Relatives of six Muslim prisoners spoke about torture in Taganrog pre-trial detention center No. 2, writes the Memorial Human Rights Protection Center. We are talking about Magomed Alkhanov, Magomed Khanilaev, Kurban-Ismail Mutairov, Bashir Dibirasulaev, Shamil Khantuev, Malik Gandaloev and Amirkhan Agamurzaev. The exact number of people subjected to torture in the Taganrog pre-trial detention center is unknown, human rights activists emphasize.