The Kazakhstan Transport Ministry has published a preliminary report on the investigation into the crash of the Embraer 190 passenger airliner of Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL). The document states that before the impact with the ground, the aircraft received through and non-through damage of various shapes. Some of them (having a regular rectangular shape) could have been caused by "external objects that penetrated the aircraft components." As part of the investigation, foreign objects found in the fin and stabilizer area were removed for further analysis.

In the United States, at a meeting with members of the Save Armenia organization, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that the country gained independence after losing Karabakh in 2020 in the war with Azerbaijan.

Замначальника главного военно-политического управления Вооруженных сил РФ, командир чеченского подразделения «Ахмат» Апти Алаудинов рассказал, что наткнулся в интернете на несколько роликов, где «здоровые мужики сидят в Курской области и предъявляют претензии – когда вы освободите наши земли». В разговоре с журналисткой местного телеканала «Сейм» он порекомендовал этим людям пойти в военкомат, подписать контракт и показать, что они могут. Тем же, кто не пошел «с оружием в руках защищать Отечество», военачальник посоветовал «хотя бы помалкивать».

As a result of an explosion in the elite residential complex "Scarlet Sails", located in the northwest of Moscow, Armen Sargsyan was fatally wounded. He was the president of the DPR Boxing Federation and the creator of the "Arbat" battalion, fighting on the side of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) has suspended flights from Baku to Astrakhan and back "for security reasons." This was reported by the press service of the airline. The duration of the restriction is not specified.

Restrictions have been introduced at the airports of Vladikavkaz, Grozny and Makhachkala. Since 07:44, they have not been accepting or sending planes. This was reported by the press secretary of the Federal Air Transport Agency, Artem Korenyako, in a telegram channel.

On Sunday, a previously announced protest took place on the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze highway. Demonstrators managed to partially block the road near the Tbilisi Mall and impede traffic, but the police returned them to the sidewalk. Some of the protesters went inside the mall.

A rally dispersal with new arrests is expected in the Georgian capital today. The country's Interior Ministry has issued a warning about the unacceptability of the announced protest with blocking roads at the entrance and exit of Tbilisi. The activists published the corresponding announcement in the Daitove Facebook group on January 30.

Today, February 1, the fifth President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili arrived in Batumi to support the protesters gathered at Shota Rustaveli State University. Hundreds of university students and activists organized a rally under the slogan "No to the Russian regime", demanding the release of the founder and director of the publishing group "Batumelebi Newspaper" Mzia Amaglobeli.

Despite all attempts by Yerevan to organize a meeting between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and US President Donald Trump in Washington, this failed. This was reported by the local newspaper Hraparak.