During a live broadcast, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov commented on the case of political prisoner Zarema Musayeva—the wife of federal judge Saidi Yangulbayev and mother of opposition activists Abubakar, Ibrahim, and Baysangur Yangulbayev. He claimed the woman was "taken" to Chechnya because her family members "worked on social media." A relevant excerpt from the broadcast was published by Chechen opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.
In Alushta, armed officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs broke into the house of the Crimean Tatar Ruslan Emirvaliev. According to them, the man received a complaint about discrediting the Russian army. During the search, the police asked the owner of the house about the Ukrainian saboteurs who allegedly live with him. However, the security forces did not find any unauthorized persons.
The basis for the investigative actions was the search for unknown persons who arrived on the territory of Crimea under the guise of refugees. They could participate in hostilities and are members of the Azov, Right Sector, Ukrainian Insurgent Army, Noman Chelebedzhikhan Battalion organizations. All of them are banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as illegal.