Human rights activists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus received the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

It is difficult to say what other mediators can offer, but both the Americans and the Europeans are doing their best to strengthen their influence in the South Caucasus by offering their platforms for negotiations.

According to official data, partial mobilization was supposed to cover 300 thousand people. However, regional human rights organizations and activists note that the mobilization disproportionately affected ethnic minorities. Thus, according to State Duma deputy from Yakutia Sardana Avksentyeva, if in the Kursk region 0.9% of men of military age were mobilized, in the Novosibirsk region - 0.27%, then in Kalmykia - 1.41%, in Yakutia - 1.66%.

On October 6, Putin ordered the transfer of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant under Russian control as federal property.

On October 5, the heads of the State Duma committees on defense, Andrei Kartapolov, and security and anti-corruption, Vasily Piskarev, sent a letter to Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov with a request to sort out the problems arising in the supply of the rear.

On October 4, Ukrainian troops entered the village of Torskoye in the Donetsk region and are fighting for the village of Kremennaya in the Lugansk region.

On October 4, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against the exiled Prime Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Akhmed Zakayev, who lives in England. He is accused of organizing a terrorist community.

The head of the government of Ichkeria in exile, Akhmed Zakayev, who was in Ukraine at the time, addressed his compatriots in Chechen in connection with the mobilization, calling on everyone who could potentially be affected by it to leave the country if possible, or even prefer prison to participating in the war against Ukraine as part of Russian army, because, in his opinion, “this is the only way you can protect yourself and your families.”

On October 3, the Constitutional Court of Russia approved documents on the admission of the DPR, LPR, and parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the country.

On October 2, Ukrainian troops entered Liman.