The Financial Research Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation published the results of the annual assessment of the regions of the country by the level of budgetary openness.

Only in North Ossetia was the housing ratio slightly higher than the Russian one, at 28.2 sq. m per person. This is reported by Rosstat. In other regions of the district the situation is unsatisfactory. Chechnya and Ingushetia - in outsiders with indicators of 20.8 and 16.1 sq. m, respectively

Nalchik City Court ordered the former employees of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs - Azamat Akkaev, Beisultan Kertov and Timur Ketov - to pay 450 thousand rubles to the victims in compensation of moral damage. In favor of Valery Levdik and Alexander Knyazev, 300 thousand. and 150 thousand. rubles respectively were charged. 

The American White House said that Russia lost 20 thousand soldiers killed in the battles for Bakhmut.
In the Bryansk region, a freight train derailed due to the undermining of tracks.

At night, Russian aviation fired 18 cruise missiles into Ukraine. 4 people died. In Pavlograd, 40 people were injured, including three children, and 19 high-rise buildings were damaged.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces received another package of military assistance from Germany: the IRIS-T anti-aircraft complex, eight Zetros trucks and two forklifts.

Armenia, as well as China, Kazakhstan, and Brazil, voted for a UN resolution that named Russia as the aggressor in the war against Ukraine. Thus, the countries that Moscow considers to be its formal allies (Armenia is also a member of the CSTO) have spoken out against it.

Georgia was not granted EU candidate status because it refused to join sanctions against Russia. This was announced by Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze. 

Ruslan Mesutov, a Crimean Tatar political prisoner, visited a lawyer in a prison in the Lipetsk region. He said that, since November 2022, a book sacred to Muslims, the Qur'an, had been confiscated from his trust.

The Supreme Court of Russia upheld the 11-year sentence of the native of Dagestan Yusup Omarov, finding him guilty of inducing him to commit a terrorist act. According to the lawyers, the criminal case was falsified and the prosecution witnesses are agents of the security forces. 

An air raid alert has been declared throughout Ukraine. Kyiv and the Kiev region, Kharkov, Sumy regions, and Kherson came under attack.