According to the lawyer, he committed crimes “by order of the command, and not voluntarily” A criminal case was opened against the sniper of the 272nd motorized rifle regiment of the 1st Tank Army (call sign “Tony”), a person involved in the special project “Layouts” about executions in the Russian army , on 29 counts. “Verstka” discovered a case file on the website of the 235th garrison military court.

The Alliance began naval maneuvers BALTOPS NATO is conducting a series of military exercises in the Baltic region. Some of them take place near the Russian borders and the Kaliningrad region. The alliance began its annual BALTOPS naval maneuvers in June and is also preparing to host the major air exercise Ramstein Flag 2026.

The driver's assistant died On the night of June 8, a Ukrainian drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train traveling from Moscow to Simferopol through the annexed Crimea. As a result of the attack, the driver's assistant was killed and the driver was injured. This was announced by the Russian-appointed head of the peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov. According to him, the train passengers were not injured.

The party received a majority in parliament, but not a constitutional one Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party won the parliamentary elections that took place on June 7. The Central Election Commission announced this on the morning of June 8 after counting votes at all 2,005 polling stations. According to the CEC, Civil Contract received 49.85% of the vote and 61 seats out of 105.

The court considered this conversation public The Vyborg court of St. Petersburg fined local resident Denis Timofeev in the case of “discrediting” the army because of a statement in a personal conversation on WhatsApp, Vorstka noted . The informer said that the Petersburger was drunk at work According to the resolution, his interlocutor complained to the police about Timofeev.

The total number of convictions increased by 24% compared to 2024 In 2025, Russian courts handed down 458 verdicts and convicted 478 people in cases related to treason: on average, courts handed down two verdicts every working day. These are the conclusions reached by analysts from the Parubets Analytics center, who conducted a study specifically for the human rights project “First Department”.

Theophilus III may meet with Vladimir Putin as early as next week US President Donald Trump supported the idea of ​​involving the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III in mediation efforts between Russia and Ukraine. The Israeli publication Ynet writes about this, citing sources familiar with the content of the meeting between Trump and the patriarch in the White House. According to the publication’s interlocutors, the meeting took place on June 4 and lasted about 40 minutes.