Overview
- Investigative Committee chair Alexander Bastrykin directed regional chief Andrey Maslov to open a criminal case and report preliminary and final results.
- The regional office had begun a procedural review after media reports of damage to portraits of WWII veterans and Heroes of Russia on a local Board of Honor.
- The Yeysk district police said they initiated their own check following Telegram posts claiming an unknown liquid was poured on the photographs.
- Police reported they identified a 53-year-old resident who admitted involvement and cited drunkenness as the reason for his behavior.
- Authorities released a video showing the man expressing remorse, as the formal investigation proceeds.