The EU mission in Armenia does not protect the country, but collects intelligence. The fate of the South Caucasus should be determined exclusively by the countries of the region and neighboring partner states. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Armenia Sergey Kopyrkin in an interview with the publication "Soyuzniki. CSTO".

Security forces are conducting searches in the homes of Crimean Tatars whose relatives are fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yesterday, the home of the parents of Ismail Khalikov, who previously held the post of Representative of the Ombudsman for the observance of the rights of residents of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, was subjected to such an inspection.

The Azerbaijani authorities have condemned the French Foreign Ministry for issuing a warning regarding travel to the republic. This statement was made by the press secretary of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, Ayhan Hajizade. He also refuted the arguments presented on the French ministry's website that citizens of the country are detained and persecuted in Azerbaijan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky supported a new package of sanctions by the National Security and Defense Council against 73 economic entities (airports and air cargo companies) and 74 individuals of the Russian Federation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted three candidates for election to the parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria for consideration.

Two more defendants in the case of the murder of a "SVO" member in the local police department have been detained in Makhachkala. According to "Baza", two PPS officers who used violence against 48-year-old Akhmed Dzhabrailov were brought to investigators. Earlier, another police officer was detained in the same case.

Yesterday, a meeting was held in the parliament of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, at which deputies discussed the contents of the notorious "Bzhania-Kozak" protocol. Let us recall that this is a protocol on the agreements reached during the meeting of the Abkhazian delegation headed by President Aslan Bzhania with the deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak.

In Magas, Ingush, an unknown person armed with a screwdriver attacked police officers and wounded at least one of them. The attacker was killed by return fire. The information was confirmed by RIA Novosti, and then by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic.

Law enforcement officers of Ingushetia, together with Chechen police officers, detained former Mayor of Magas Usman Aushev in Grozny. He is a suspect in a criminal case on abuse of office and has been placed on the federal wanted list.

20 years ago, the bloody denouement of the seizure of school No. 1 in the North Ossetian city of Beslan took place. As a result of the three-day siege and subsequent violent assault on the overcrowded school, 334 people died, including 186 children. The main questions concerning this tragedy remain unanswered to this day. For more details, watch our video.