Overview
- In Ufa, a 34-year-old man was detained on suspicion of throwing his three-year-old daughter from a fourth-floor window; investigators opened a case for attempted murder of a minor and doctors say the child is in extremely serious condition and undergoing surgery.
- In Kurgan region, a 24-year-old suspect was detained and charged with aggravated murder after an alleged drunken arson that killed a grandmother and two grandchildren and left another child hospitalized.
- St. Petersburg investigators say the priority version in architect Alexander Suponitsky’s killing is a financial dispute, with preliminary findings indicating a neighbor shot him in the building entrance and then took his own life; the suspected neighbor was identified in reporting, and the probe continues.
- Security services reported terrorism-related actions: the UFSB in Ulyanovsk announced the arrest and remand of two local residents accused of torching a mobile operator’s cabinet on instructions from an anonymous messenger user, and a Kaluga-region court sentenced two men to 21 and 18 years for treason and terrorism tied to alleged Ukrainian recruitment.
- Officials reported wartime developments as claims: the Defense Ministry cited Ukrainian losses across several sectors, including more than 520 in the ‘Center’ zone, up to 230 in ‘West,’ up to 195 in ‘North,’ and over 55 in ‘Dnepr’; regional updates included deadly strikes reported in Belgorod’s Maslova Pristan, where three died and three remain in intensive care, and in Kherson region, where three civilians were reported killed, while a separate claim about a NATO specialist killed near Odesa was attributed to a local source and not independently verified.