The administration of US President Donald Trump has lifted a key restriction on Ukraine's use of some long-range missiles supplied to it by Western allies. The Wall Street Journal reports this with reference to American officials. As the newspaper notes, immediately after the restrictions were lifted, Ukraine used a Storm Shadow cruise missile supplied by the UK to strike a chemical plant in Bryansk on October 21. Last night the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on the attack.

An explosion occurred in the city of Kopeysk, ASTRA reports , citing local residents. Information about the incident was also confirmed by the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Alexey Teksler. “Unfortunately, there are victims. All operational services have arrived at the scene, and the work of the headquarters has been deployed. There is no threat to city residents and civilian objects,” the head of the region wrote in his Telegram channel.

The Saratov Regional Court sentenced 27-year-old resident of the regional capital Andrei Shurygin to 15 years in prison in a case of cooperation with the Ukrainian special services. The press service of the court reported this. Shurygin was found guilty of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). The man will serve his sentence in a maximum security colony. In addition to the real sentence, he was sentenced to one and a half years of restriction of freedom.

An explosion occurred on Serova Street in Stavropol, not far from a trolleybus stop, as reported by the telegram channels Baza and Atypical Stavropol , as well as Ksenia Sobchak and TASS, citing operational services. As TASS clarifies , a woman was injured due to the explosion of an “unidentified device” - she received shrapnel wounds. “In the 204th block microdistrict there was an explosion of an unidentified device. As a result, a woman was injured.

The ex-commander of the wounded evacuation department and military medic Alexei Zhilyaev, who deserted from the war in Ukraine, was hospitalized in France. Echo writes about this with reference to a source familiar with the situation. For the last few months, as the publication’s interlocutor said, the military man had not been in touch - his friends started looking for him. As a result, it became known that Zhilyaev was in the hospital.

Logo of the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia. Фото: MAXIM SHEMETOV / Reuters Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office asked the Supreme Court to have late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, or FBK in Russian), officially declared a “terrorist organisation”. This comes despite the organisation already being outlawed as “extremist”, with Navalny dead, his allies in exile, and regular supporters being prosecuted and imprisoned on a regular basis.

The Supreme Court of Russia received a lawsuit from the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that the American legal entity Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) be recognized as a “terrorist organization.” This was reported by politician Leonid Volkov with reference to a letter from judge Oleg Nefedov. It follows from the document that a hearing on the claim is scheduled for November 27 and will be held behind closed doors.

The Chelyabinsk Garrison Military Court sentenced military man Sergei Vikharev to 3.5 years in a general regime colony on criminal charges of hooliganism with the use of weapons (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) and illegal possession of weapons (Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code). The press service of the court reported this. It follows from the message that Vikharev was a participant in the war in Ukraine.

The 2nd Eastern District Military Court in Chita sentenced anti-fascist Alexander Snezhkov to five years in prison, finding him guilty of justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for conversations with cellmates. This was reported by Snezhkov’s support group. The judge imposed this punishment by “partially adding the new term to the old one,” the post says. The support group did not specify exactly how many years Snezhkov was assigned under the new article.

The Court of the European Union upheld the claim to lift personal sanctions against businessman Mikhail Gutseriev, which were imposed against him due to his connection with the authorities of Belarus and Alexander Lukashenko personally. This is stated in a copy of the resolution dated October 22. The Gutseriev case in which the decision was made was related to the extension of sanctions in February 2024.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya, Mansur Soltaev, accused crisis centers that protect women's rights of the murder of Aishat Baymuradova in Armenia and the kidnapping of Seda Suleymanova. “It is reported that [Aishat] was taken from the Caucasus by representatives of the so-called crisis centers and pseudo-human rights activists recognized on the territory of the Russian Federation as foreign agents and sponsored by Western structures.

The Moscow City Court overturned the sentence of 51-year-old programmer Ilya Vasiliev, known as Arvi Hacker, and sent his case about military “fakes” for a new trial. This was reported by SotaVision . He will be left in pre-trial detention for this time. 51-year-old Ilya Vasiliev gained fame in the 2000s as an IT enthusiast; an ironic article was dedicated to him in the Internet folklore encyclopedia Lurkmore .

The defense of businessman and founder of the Tsargrad channel Konstantin Malofeev, in a complaint against the decision in a defamation claim against journalist Andrei Zakharov and the book publishing house Individuum, mentioned the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and the “position” of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Information about this “Mediazone” was confirmed by Zakharov himself.

“Yandex.Music” and several other music services, including “ VK Music”, “MTS Music” and “Zvuk” (formerly “SberZvuk” of Sberbank) blocked Zemfira’s song “Povesitsa” from the 2005 album “Vendetta”. Yandex accompanied this with an explanation that the blocking was related to the claims of Roskomnadzor. MTS Music and Sound hid the song in the album without any explanation.

The Leninsky District Court of Yaroslavl imposed a fine of 60 thousand rubles in the case of participation in the activities of an “undesirable” organization (Article 20.33 of the Administrative Code) against the language center “Lingvist”. The decision was announced to Mediazona in court.