The territory of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions came under Ukrainian drone strikes several times during February 25, reported regional heads Vyacheslav Gladkov, Alexander Bogomaz and Alexander Khinshtein, respectively. In the Belgorod region, a man was seriously injured as a result of a drone strike on a car near the village of Stepnoye in the Krasnoyaruzhsky District, who later died during transportation.

The Court of Appeal in the Krasnoyarsk Territory overturned the conviction of Alexander Gliskov, a deputy of the local legislative assembly from the LDPR, who was previously sentenced to 10 years in a maximum security colony in a bribery case, the press service of the regional courts reported . The politician’s case was returned to the prosecutor “to remove obstacles to its consideration by the court.” Gliskov himself was released at this time and transferred to house arrest.

The 1st Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg began again to consider the case against 29-year-old Kazakh citizen Artur Martynov, who was previously sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security colony. He is accused of undergoing training to carry out terrorist attacks and attempted terrorist attacks, Mediazona found out. In July last year, Martynov’s case was considered in the same military court, but behind closed doors.

Two residents of the city of Kolpashevo, Tomsk region, Vladimir Shelmanov and Sergei Maltsev, convicted of gang rape and murder of a local resident, died in the war in Ukraine, Mediazona found out. Both died in the fall of 2023 in Bakhmut. At the time of their death, Maltsev was 27 years old, Shelmanov was 28. Apparently, they were recruited to fight in the colony where they were serving their sentences.

Photo: social networks Two residents of the city of Kolpashevo, Tomsk region, convicted of gang rape and murder of a woman, died in the war in Ukraine. The men attacked 31-year-old Elena Larionova in the summer of 2017. They took the girl to the river bank and took turns raping her, and when she threatened to inform the police, they beat her and buried her in a dug hole - it later turned out that at that moment the girl was unconscious, but still alive.

The administration of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) has approved a quota for sending students to the war in Ukraine. The publication of Marina Barinova, a former adviser to the rector of the university, drew attention to the publication “7x7”. Barinova published a fragment of the table. It indicates “students of the promising category” who are fit for military service. According to the table, there are a total of 267 male students with the “suitability category” studying at FEFU.

Despite the sanctions, Russian companies continue to purchase equipment, sell raw materials and move assets through firms registered in the British Overseas Territories. This is stated in a study by the Transparency International Russia center. According to Transparency experts, from February 2022 to January 2025, the volume of trade through British offshore companies amounted to at least $8 billion. During the same time, more than 29 thousand operations were performed through them.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sentenced to six years in a general regime colony the former first deputy director of the Main Construction Directorate No. 4 Larisa Leontyeva and clothing designer Ferutdin Zakirov, accused of fraud in the supply of artificial lung ventilation devices (ventilators) for the Ministry of Defense. This was reported by an RBC correspondent and the Investigative Committee .

The Seventh Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction replaced folklorist and bard from Khanty-Mansiysk Valeria Ledkova with three years in a general regime colony for three years of suspended imprisonment in the case of financing an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by lawyer from OVD-Info Pavel Rusnakov.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow ordered 10 days of administrative arrest for Taisiya Kurbanalieva, who came out yesterday with a poster “No to war, no to occupation.” This was reported by the press service of the capital's courts. Kurbanalieva was detained yesterday afternoon on Pushkinskaya Square; she was left at the Tverskoy district police station the night before the trial. The lawyer was not allowed inside.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian servicemen Maxim Bozhko and Ilya Dovbnya to 19 years in prison. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. 37-year-old Bozhko and 39-year-old Dovbnya , who served in Azov, were accused of participating in a terrorist community and teaching terrorism. The cases of both military men came to court at the end of December 2025, and their sentences were handed down at the end of January 2026.

The Magdacha District Court of the Amur Region arrested an assistant driver of an electric locomotive on charges of sabotage (Part 1 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code). The local publication Amur.life reports this with reference to security officials. According to the FSB, a young man poured an incendiary mixture on the electricity control unit in the engine room of an electric locomotive and set it on fire. The fire was quickly extinguished.

The Olkhonsky District Court of the Irkutsk Region sent the organizer of an excursion trip to Lake Baikal, during which eight people died, to a pre-trial detention center. The regional prosecutor's office reports this. A 35-year-old resident of the village of Khuzhir was charged in a criminal case with providing services that did not meet safety requirements.

The Syktyvkar City Court of Komi fined rapper Gio Pika (Georgy Dzhioev) 10 thousand rubles under a protocol for inciting hatred towards security forces. The Komi prosecutor's office reported this.

The magistrate of court district No. 16 of the Pushkinogorsky district of the Pskov region imposed in absentia 400 hours of compulsory work on the military observer of the YouTube channel “Popular Politics” Yan Matveev. He was accused of evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code), reports the press service of the regional courts.