The human rights organization KrymSOS recorded at least six cases of torture of Crimean Tatar political prisoners in 2022. They also suffer from ill-treatment and inadequate medical care.

Representatives of the Cabinet of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria spoke at the parliamentary session of Ukraine on the eve. They suggested that in the future the Peoples' Friendship Square in the center of Grozny should be named after the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Britain, Germany and France agreed to give Ukraine wide access to NATO weapons to force Russia into peace talks.

Ukraine has announced plans to mine a two-kilometer strip along the border with Belarus.

On February 24, the anniversary of the beginning of the war in Ukraine, an anti-Russian protest rally was held in Yerevan. The participants carried the flags of Ukraine, the United States, France and the European Union.

Debts of Russians for the removal of solid household waste (garbage) exceeded 90 billion rubles. A number of environmental operators have difficulties in collecting payments. The worst results are in Ingushetia, Dagestan and the Khabarovsk Territory (less than 70%), the relevant Duma committee reported.

The US imposed sanctions against the head of Ingushetia Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov, the head of Dagestan Sergei Melikov, their colleagues from the CBR - Kazbek Kokov and the KCR - Rashid Temrezov.  Also on the list is the former president of Dagestan, acting deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation Magomedsalam Magomedov.

On the anniversary of the invasion, rallies in support of Ukraine are held in many cities around the world under the slogan “Light will conquer darkness.” Participants in anti-war protests in Russia are detained by the police.

The Government of Georgia has driven itself into isolation, has separated itself from the democratic community and is trying to justify the incomprehensible, ostensibly neutral position regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war. This was stated by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili at the event dedicated to the war anniversary.

Speaking the day before at a mourning event dedicated to the 79th anniversary of the forced eviction of the Chechen and Ingush peoples, which took place
in the Chechen village of Aukh in Dagestan, Chairman of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov recalled that for thousands of Chechens and Ingush, the exile did not end even after 79 years.

In Crimea, the Russian authorities, as part of their mobilization for the war against Ukraine, issued disproportionately more summonses to the Crimean Tatars. The figure is up to 90%, CrymSOS reported.