Russian drone operators deliberately killed a couple of civilians trying to evacuate from the border village of Grabovskoye in the Sumy region. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reports this. According to the department, on January 27, a 54-year-old man and his 52-year-old wife were walking along a snow-covered road in a field. In the video published by the Ukrainian side, a man was pushing a sled behind him, which probably contained his wife.

Hunterbrook Media published an investigation into the supply of equipment from the American Ubiquiti, one of the world's largest companies producing network equipment, for remote control of Russian drones in the war in Ukraine. The investigation deals with radio bridges from the LiteBeam, PowerBeam and airFiber lines - powerful wireless antennas that allow you to transmit an Internet signal over tens of kilometers and are used by the Russian military for communication and control of drones.

In the Toguchinsky district of the Novosibirsk region, a 15-year-old teenager was accused of setting fire to a cell phone tower. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee. A criminal case of sabotage was opened against the young man (Article 281 of the Criminal Code). According to the Investigative Committee, in January an unknown person wrote to the teenager via messenger and persuaded him to set the fire. Other details of the case are unknown.

Five funds and companies from four countries were included in the register of “undesirable organizations”, which is published on the website of the Ministry of Justice. The list included the Turkish Caucasus Foundation ( Kafkas Kültür-Eğitim ve Sosyal Yardim vakfi ), the Swiss-based International Alliance of Libertarian Parties, the Canadian Parliamentary Center and the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives , as well as the French Vigo law firm.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit for the nationalization of the St. Petersburg printing house "Pechatnya" - a production of cardboard packaging, labels and instructions located in Kolpino. This was explained by claims against the owners, Kommersant claims . The claim became known last week when, as part of the proceedings, the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region arrested all shares in the company.

The Associated Press spoke with three Bangladeshis who said they were tricked into signing contracts with the Russian army and sent to the front, but managed to escape. In 2024, 31-year-old Maksudur Rahman returned to Bangladesh from Malaysia after the end of his work contract, looking for a new job, he found a vacancy as a cleaner in a Russian “military camp”.

Deputies adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On Communications”, which will oblige operators to disconnect communications at the request of the FSB. There are two amendments to the bill. The first relieves telecom operators of responsibility for such outages.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs added to the wanted list the owner of the bookstore “KnizhOchki” from the Kostroma region, Yan Kulikov, who left Russia after the sentence was tightened in a criminal case about military “fakes.” Mediazona drew attention to this. In September 2025, Kulikov was sentenced to five years of probation on charges of spreading “fake news” motivated by political hatred.

The FSB reported on the detention of three residents of the Sverdlovsk region, accused of preparing for a terrorist attack - arson on a railway. Judging by the department’s video, we are talking about Tatyana Nazarova and her two brothers, Alexei and Artem Nazarov, whose arrest became known at the end of December.

The head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, proposed to Vladimir Putin to lift the ban on the operation of online casinos in Russia, Kommersant reports , citing two sources. The Ministry proposes to introduce a tax of 30 percent of revenue minus paid winnings for online casinos. Operators will pay it every month. The Ministry of Finance estimates federal budget revenues from their activities at 100 billion rubles annually, writes Kommersant.

The criminal case against stand-up comedian Artemy Ostanin under the article of inciting hatred or enmity became known on March 15, 2025. The case was opened because of a monologue about a legless man in the subway, with which the comedian performed at a recording of a YouTube show for Channel Three, associated with the Moscow Stand-Up Club No. 1. “I walked in the transition and didn’t touch anyone. I feel like my foot is being stepped on.