Due to heavy rainfall in the Chechen village of Mesker-Yurt, the Dzhalka River overflowed its banks, flooding 45 homes, including eight houses, which were completely submerged. According to the Shali District administration, local residents were evacuated and temporarily housed with relatives.

On May 20, a Viennese court found Egisto Ott, a former employee of the Austrian counterintelligence agency BVT, guilty of espionage for Russia, abuse of power, and corruption. But the main point of this story is not just another European scandal involving Russian agents. Ott's case is directly linked to operations against Chechen emigrants and the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin.

Russian Emergencies Ministry Head Alexander Kurenkov announced that over 1.1 billion rubles have been allocated for payments to residents of Dagestan and Chechnya affected by the spring floods.

North Ossetia's head, Sergei Menyailo, has ordered that children from the republic not be sent on summer vacation to Tuapse following a series of drone attacks and fires at the city's oil facilities. He said the decision is primarily due to security concerns.

On May 18, 1944, the mass deportation of Crimean Tatars from Crimea began.

Authorities in Kabardino-Balkaria have once again denied permission for a memorial march to be held on May 21—Remembrance Day for the Adyghe (Circassians), victims of the Caucasian War.

Azerbaijan has been hit by unusually heavy rainfall: between 70 and 103 mm of rain fell in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula over the past 24 hours. 

Marina Akhmedova, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Council from Dagestan, a former journalist who once wrote sympathetic reports from Ukraine, now one of the most rabid propagandists of the war, and editor-in-chief of the publication Regnum, has once again expressed outrage over the performance of "public prayer" – this time by a Muslim from Central Asia.