On February 19, the Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg received a petition from the investigation to take into custody 30-year-old Anatoly Sharoglazov, a former prisoner who participated in the war with Ukraine, Mediazona noted . What exactly the man is accused of is not specified on the court website. On the day the request for arrest was received, the St.

In Nikolaev, an explosion occurred at a non-working gas station, as a result of which at least seven police officers were injured. Two of them are in serious condition, the department itself reported . It is clarified that the explosion occurred when employees of the patrol police department arrived for their shift and parked their cars at a gas station. What exactly caused the explosion is unknown.

A resident of Irkutsk was fined 30 thousand rubles under the protocol on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona drew attention to the published text of the court decision dated January 22. The police charged the Irkutsk resident with two comments that he left in January and March 2023 in a telegram.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened against a 15-year-old girl for committing a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code), the local department of the Investigative Committee reported . She was accused of setting fire to a gas station pump in the Primorsky district of the city on February 23. It is clarified that the detainee became a victim of telephone scammers.

Russian recruiters who find foreigners to participate in the war against Ukraine have been given a blacklist from countries whose citizens can no longer be contracted. The information that appeared in groups and chats of recruiters was confirmed to the publication “Important Stories” by one of the large regional centers for searching for mercenaries. The publication found the earliest mention of the list in the TikTok account of a mercenary from Ghana, Kelvin Ejira.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on eight Russian citizens suspected of human rights abuses, suppression of civil society and democratic opposition, and “undermining democracy and the rule of law.” This was reported on the official website of the EU Council. The first on the list is Alexey Valizer, head of colony No. 10 in the Altai Territory - where political prisoner Alexey Gorinov has been held since July 2025. The second is Anton Rychar, head of pre-trial detention center No.

The author of the pro-war telegram channel Fighterbomber , citing his sources, reports that the Russian army has banned the use of the Max messenger. “Against the backdrop of strangling the cart by all available means, the Laotian troops received orders to ban the use and installation of the most secure national messenger in the world,” writes Fighterbomber.

A resident of the Bryansk border village of Goritsy died as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack. Governor Alexander Bogomaz announced this. The head of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, writes in his telegram channel about two residents of the region who were injured as a result of attacks by Ukrainian drones. One received a mine explosion injury and a shrapnel wound to the leg in the village of Tavrovo near Belgorod.

The Council of the European Union has extended for one year sanctions against Russia imposed due to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This information is contained in a Council Regulation published in the Official Journal of the EU. The decision takes effect on February 24, the anniversary of the full-scale invasion. At the same time, the European Union, due to the position of the Hungarian authorities, was unable to approve the 20th package of sanctions against Russia.

In Kazakhstan, a criminal case was opened against the priest Iakov Vorontsov, who was defrocked after criticizing the Russian Orthodox Church and the war in Ukraine, and also tried to establish an Orthodox Church in the country independent of the Russian Orthodox Church. As reported by the Kazakh publication Vlast, Vorontsov is charged with maintaining a drug den and storing drugs without the purpose of selling them.

The Belgorod District Court of the Belgorod Region sentenced 34-year-old local resident Olga Chepeleva to five and a half years in a general regime colony because of publications on social networks. The regional department of the Investigative Committee reported the court's decision. Chepeleva was found guilty of spreading “fakes” about the armed forces motivated by hatred (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

At night, the Russian military attacked Kharkov, Odessa and Zaporozhye with missiles and drones. Local authorities spoke about the deaths and injuries of local residents. According to the head of the Odessa regional military administration, Oleg Kiper, two residents of the regional capital died due to the attack, and three more people were injured. In addition, industrial, energy and civil infrastructure facilities were damaged.