The President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, arrived in Tbilisi on an official visit. He was met at the airport by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, after which the delegations met in an expanded format.

In the Russian capital, a patient refused an appointment with Dr. Elvin Guseinov, citing his ethnicity. The woman had known this in advance but decided to publicly voice her concerns.

Seventeen-year-old Adam Kadyrov, Secretary of the Chechen Security Council, received a commemorative medal in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Akhmat-Krepost special forces unit. This was announced by his father, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the republic.

The "Georgian Nightmare Non-Recognition Amendment," sponsored by Republican Congressman Joe Wilson, has been approved for inclusion in the US State Department Appropriations Act. He announced this on the social media platform X.

Rustam Shipiyev, a contract soldier from Chechnya, was sentenced to six years in a general regime penal colony. According to the case file, he failed to return to his military unit after undergoing treatment at a sanatorium. Instead, he went home, where he was detained by military commandant's office officers.

Vladimir Putin stated that he would consider Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov's proposal to return Volgograd to its historical name, Stalingrad.

Crimean Tatar activist Servet Gaziyev, serving his sentence in Penal Colony No. 5 in Kamchatka, has again complained of deteriorating health.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan commented on the possibility of using the transport corridor connecting Azerbaijan with Nakhichevan (the "Trump Route") for arms transportation. He stated that such a scenario is possible, but only with reciprocity.