The Dutch military intelligence service has issued a report warning that Russia is engaged in espionage and sabotage of undersea cables, wind farms and gas pipelines in the North Sea. The Financial Times writes about this. In recent months, a ship was spotted in the North Sea trying to map energy infrastructure, Dutch intelligence chief General Jan Swillens said at a press conference. The vessel was not successful because it was escorted by the Navy and Coast Guard, he said.

Prosecutors in New Mexico have reduced the manslaughter charges brought against actor Alec Baldwin in the death of cameraman Galina Hutchins, The New York Times reports. The point about the use of firearms as an aggravating circumstance was excluded from the indictment. The prosecutor's office said they did this to avoid further litigation with Alec Baldwin.

Updated . The blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov published the first video almost three months after his disappearance. In the video “Return” , he said that he was alive and well, but did not give additional details. The Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov , whose disappearance and murder of which was previously reported by the media, contacted the Chechen human rights association Vaifond, which is based in Sweden.

A group of lawyers from the Advocate League community asked the Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation to strip lawyer and former What? Where? When? player Ilya Novikov of his lawyer status, TASS reports. The community filed a complaint with the chamber against Novikov, considering that his activities “do not comply with Russian law and the code of professional ethics,” one of the founders of the Advocate League, lawyer Igor Vagin, told the agency.

In Cherkessk, an attack was carried out on the deputy head of the treasury of Karachay-Cherkessia Murat Elkanov and the judge of the arbitration court Kazbek Salpagarov, Kavkaz.Realii reports. According to the publication, Elkanov was taken to the hospital in serious condition. Salpagarov “received less severe injuries,” writes Kavkaz.Realii. A video of the incident was published by the Baza telegram channel.

The magnitude of the magnitude of 6.4 occurred in the area of ​​Defna of the Turkish province of Hatay, Anadolu reports with reference to the Emergency Situations Office of Turkey. Superior shocks were recorded at 20:04 local time at a depth of 16.7 kilometers. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said that an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 occurred in Turkey. Superior shocks were also felt in neighboring countries, including in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Cyprus.

Municipal deputy Alexey Gorinov, who is serving a seven-year sentence in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army in penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov, has been placed on preventive watch as prone to escape, the Telegram channel “Freedom for Alexey Gorinov” reports. The prison staff check Gorinov every two hours, including at night, recording their checks on a video recorder, the lawyers said. It is unknown what caused the registration.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In 2022, Putin did not announce his message - and does it only now. What did this genre turn into? And why doesn’t even like Putin himself anymore? On February 21, in the living room in Moscow, Vladimir Putin announces his message to the Federal Assembly. According to the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov, the main emphasis in the appeal will be “on the current situation”, including in the economy and the social sphere.

Poland will suspend Belarusian freight traffic through the only checkpoint still available to freight vehicles on the two countries’ border, the Kukuryki–Kozlowicze crossing, at 7:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, the Polish Interior Ministry has reported.

Answers Pavel Chikov - in an interview with Yuri Dudu Yuri Dud interviewed Pavel Chikov, the head of the Agora international human rights group, who assisted people pursued in Russia for political motives. In particular, she supports people who are accused under articles on “discrediting” the Russian army and “fakes” about the Russian armed forces.

Evgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner Group, said Monday that the mercenary company is experiencing a “complete shell famine ” and called on the Russian Defense Ministry to provide ammunition to Wagner “in the amount needed, which it has in storage.” In an interview response that his press service reposted on Telegram, Prigozhin noted that his inability so far to solve Wagner Group’s supply problems comes “even despite all of his contacts and connections.” He claimed unnamed sources

Russia's real GDP fell by 2.1% in 2022, according to the first estimate by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), published on the evening of February 20. The decline in GDP turned out to be less than in the pandemic year of 2020, when the economy fell by 3.1% according to the first estimate, and by 2.7% according to the revised estimate, RBC writes . As Interfax notes, Rosstat twice postponed the publication of the first assessment of the dynamics of the Russian economy for 2022.

Polish Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Mariusz Kaminski decided to restrict the movement of Belarusian trucks through the Kukuryki border checkpoint. This is the last operating checkpoint on the border between Poland and Belarus, accessible to trucks.

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against Medical Corps Lieutenant Denis Vasilyev for refusing to take part in combat, Pavel Chikov, the founder of the human rights group Agora, reported on Monday. According to Chikov, Vasilyev graduated from Russia’s Military Medical Academy in 2022 and has been serving in a military unit of the Northern Fleet since last summer, but has been trying to resign from the military the entire time.

The founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that his military company is experiencing a “complete starvation of shells” and called on the Russian Ministry of Defense to allocate ammunition to the PMC “in the required quantity, which is in warehouses.” This comment from the businessman was disseminated by his press service in response to a request from RT. “The questions I asked about ammunition, unfortunately, remain completely unresolved. This is a serious problem.