The Russian Armed Forces fired at the Korabelny district of Kherson using multiple launch rocket systems, Suspilna reported on May 27, citing local authorities. A children's playground came under fire, where local residents with children were at that moment. A man died at the scene, authorities said. A 36-year-old local resident, the wife of the deceased, and their two daughters, three and six years old, were injured. The victims were hospitalized.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow sent into custody for two months the deputy general director of the Uralvagonzavod concern for special equipment, Dmitry Semizorov, who is accused of embezzlement while fulfilling a state defense order. According to RBC, according to investigators, violations were committed during the implementation of contracts related to the supply of climate control equipment for the defense industry.

The head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina, reported in a telegram on May 27 that bailiffs collected 300 thousand rubles in compensation from blogger Artemy Lebedev in Mizulina’s claim for the protection of honor and dignity. Mizulina stated that she transferred the money received to the Popular Front fund. Everything for victory,” which supports the Russians participating in the war.

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decided to retain public figure from Chechnya Ruslan Kutaev, who insulted LGBTQ people and justified “honor killings” in the Caucasus, as part of the platform of the Russian opposition at PACE. The crisis group SK SOS drew attention to this. At the end of April, PACE temporarily suspended Kutaev from the platform, but left the final decision to the bureau of the parliamentary assembly.

IT industry pioneer Alexander Galitsky left Russia, having all his property taken away for “supporting Ukraine.” Let's tell his story Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Profimedia 71-year-old Alexander Galitsky is a Soviet designer who became one of the first successful technopreneurs and venture investors in Russia. He has been doing business in the USA, Eastern Europe and Russia for many years.

The total wage arrears in Russia at the end of April amounted to 2.9 billion rubles, which is 750 million rubles more (+35.2%) than in March, according to Rosstat data presented on May 27. At the same time, compared to April 2025, wage debt increased by almost 1.4 billion (+94.3%). These data were provided by organizations that are not small businesses. More than half (55%) of the wage debt is due to debt that arose in 2026, another 34% is due to debt in 2025, and almost 11% is due to 2024.

A court in Verdun sentenced Daniela Klette, a former member of the German left-wing terrorist organization Red Army Faction ( RAF ), to 13 years in prison for her participation in a series of armed robberies of supermarkets and cash-in-transit vehicles. Klette, 67, was cleared of attempted murder charges in connection with one of the 2015 robberies. Then, despite the shooting, no one was hurt.

This is a campaign against the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims Ravil Gainutdin, experts say Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS / Profimedia Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia Ravil Gainutdin at the state awards ceremony in the Kremlin, November 4, 2025 In May, reports of detentions and arrests of muftis and other Muslim religious and public figures were received from different regions of Russia.

Russia and Afghanistan, which is under the rule of the Islamist Taliban movement, signed an agreement on military-technical cooperation at a forum in the Moscow region. Typically, within the framework of such agreements, the parties transfer weapons, licenses, military technologies to each other and conduct joint development, writes “Important Stories”. On May 27, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu met with Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqub.

The day before, the media reported that he escaped from the hospital and was wanted in the Leningrad region Shot from the TV channel “St. Petersburg” Andrei Kiyko, known as the “Sosnovsky maniac,” went missing at the front, his relatives and colleagues believe. The St. Petersburg publication Fontanka, which the day before reported that Kiyko was wanted in the Leningrad region, now writes that he probably died in the war in Ukraine.

Vladimir Zelensky sent a letter to Donald Trump and the US Congress in which he stated the lack of air defense systems in Ukraine, the Kyiv Independent reports . The text of the letter was published by Axios journalist Barak Ravid. According to Zelensky, Ukraine has made significant progress in defending against drones, but is not yet able to produce its own missile defense systems. “We rely on our friends and partners around the world for missile defense.

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Former RT France editor-in-chief Ksenia Fedorova got a job at the French right-wing conservative TV channel CNews, as reported in publications by Politico and the Russian service RFI . RT France stopped broadcasting in January 2023. Fedorova then reported that this was due to the blocking of the TV channel’s accounts.

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More than 20 college students died in the annexed LPR. Here's what classmates and friends say about them and this attack Pavel Bednyakov / AP / Scanpix / LETA Spontaneous memorial in Starobelsk. May 24, 2026 On the night of May 22, Ukrainian troops launched a drone strike on Starobelsk in the annexed LPR. The pedagogical college and professional college of Lugansk Pedagogical University came under fire.