Head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison in Ukraine for helping members of the "SVO". He was found guilty under the article on financing actions committed with the aim of changing the borders of Ukraine.

A man who is believed to be a member of the detachment of field commanders Shamil Basayev and Khattab has been detained in the Kaitag district of Dagestan. He allegedly took part in military actions in the Botlikh district of the republic in 1999 during the second Russian-Chechen war.

On May 21, a rally was held in the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic in memory of the victims of the Caucasian War and those who died for the independence of the Circassian people. At least two thousand people took part in the action.

A UAZ Patriot exploded between the city of Skadovsk and the village of Antonovka in the Kherson region. There were four officers in it, presumably associated with the Akhmat unit, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine reported.

Mansur Movlaev, who was put on the wanted list in Russia and fled from the Chechen authorities, has received the status of an asylum seeker in Kazakhstan. He also asked not to be extradited to Russia.

On May 22, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced one of the leaders of the opposition party "Coalition for Change" Zurab Girchi Japaridze to arrest as a preventive measure. He was taken into custody in the courtroom.

Citizen journalist Rustem Sheykhaliyev was transferred from the Yeniseisk prison in Krasnoyarsk Krai to Blagoveshchensk in Amur Oblast. In February, the political prisoner was placed in the tuberculosis hospital of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Krasnoyarsk Krai. This happened after his legs turned blue and began to hurt and swell even more.

A 21-year-old local resident of Volgograd was accused of publicly justifying terrorism. He is suspected of leaving a comment on social networks in support of natives of Ingushetia killed during the counter-terrorism operation in 2024.

At today's session of the Tbilisi City Court, a preventive measure will be chosen for one of the leaders of the opposition party "Coalition for Change" Zurab Girchi Japaridze. The politician refused to pay bail in the amount of 20 thousand lari, assigned to him for refusing to appear for questioning at the investigative commission of the parliament.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Eduard Taushev and Temirali Zarakayev to 19 and 13 years in a maximum security penal colony, respectively. This was reported by Interfax, citing information from the FSB Directorate for Stavropol Krai. The defendants were found guilty of attacking the Botlikh District of Dagestan during the second Russian-Chechen war.