For the first time since the 1990s, Russian Railways sent a shipment of wheat to Armenia via Azerbaijan. The Russian Ministry of Transport reported that the shipment of over 1,000 tons of wheat from Dimitrovgrad station (Ulyanovsk Oblast) to Armenia was made possible by the resumption of freight transit.

The opening of new transport routes between Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Turkey poses a serious threat to Georgia's logistics industry. According to expert estimates, the country risks losing a significant portion of its transit cargo flow, amounting to 2 million tons, or 15-20% of the Middle Corridor's volume.

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, currently in China, commented on the report on European Union enlargement. He stated that the injustice and distortion of facts by European bureaucracy have led to a gradual decline in Georgia's trust in the European Union and the EU as a whole.

The head of Ingushetia, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office reported.