Overview
- Emergency officials say a Toyota Estima carrying eight people broke through the ice near Yakutsk, with five getting out on their own and three, including a child, initially unaccounted for in the vehicle.
- Diving teams and a psychologist are working at the site, with 20 emergency personnel and seven units of equipment deployed, according to the regional MChS.
- Yakutsk mayor Evgeny Grigoryev reported one evacuee with frostbite and hypothermia, extended condolences to families of the dead, and urged residents to use only official river crossings.
- In Primorsky Krai, police say a Honda Fit driver died after losing control on a slippery section of the Artem–Nakhodka–Port Vostochny highway and colliding with a truck, prompting an administrative probe of the road owner under Article 12.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.
- In Samara Region, a Lada Vesta driven by a 2007‑born motorist collided with a KAMAZ truck on the Shentala–Azeeyevo road, killing the car’s driver and passenger as investigators work to establish the circumstances.