Overview
- Prosecutors opened a murder case after a backpack with a child’s body fragment was recovered from Moscow’s Golyánovo pond, with investigators estimating the victim at 7–10 years old and likely deceased within the past two days.
- Dive teams finished searching the pond as the Investigative Committee continues witness interviews, video reviews and a manhunt to identify and detain the person responsible.
- In the Moscow region, a decapitated boy’s body was found in a Balashikha apartment, and prosecutors say the grandmother reported the child was taken by the mother’s partner; investigators are checking any link to the pond discovery.
- Regional authorities in Kursk, Voronezh, Tula and Penza announced UAV threat alerts, air defenses were reported active over Kursk, and two civilians were injured in Belgorod region drone strikes, officials said.
- Rosaviatsiya imposed temporary flight restrictions at airports in Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg and Ufa before lifting them in Nizhny Novgorod, while separate disruptions included a storm that detached two small vessels near Teriberka and widespread fixed‑line internet outages across four central regions that operators attributed to third‑party damage.