On 23 February 1944, Soviet leader Stalin ordered the deportation of Chechens and Ingush from the North Caucasus region to Central Asia and Siberia. This act has been recognized by many countries and the European Parliament as genocide.

Russian troops shelled Kherson with a Grad launcher. At least five civilians were killed.

The Makhachkala garrison military court refused to consider the claims of representatives of four residents of Dagestan. As fathers of three or more children, they were legally entitled to deferment, but were mobilized and sent to fight against Ukraine.

The weight of former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili fell to 67 kilograms due to his failure to fully eat. Tamara Davarashvili, an attending physician at Tbilisi Private Clinic, said so.

The Azerbaijan People’s Front Party and the National Council of Democratic Forces had called on the international community to take action against the authorities. They were accused of political repression and regular human rights violations.

The meeting of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk with «the so-called head of occupied Abkhazia is a violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia». President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili said so.

In the Southern District Military Court, the state prosecutor requested 12 years of strict-regime colony for the Crimean Tatar Amethan Abdulwapov. He is accused of participating in the Islamic party «Hizb ut-Tahrir». It is recognized in the Russian Federation as a terrorist, but it operates legally in Europe and other continents.

The start of the EU monitoring mission on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan is an attempt to «extradite» Russia from the region. This was stated by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

World champion in grappling (wrestling technique using captures) Akhmed Chalayev together with his friends saved an elderly woman from the burning hotel «MKM» in Moscow. It happened before the rescue came.