The owner of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that he did not see anything reprehensible in his statements about the Chechen division of Akhmat. He added that “all participants in this discussion” can contact him.

Within the framework of the summit of the European Political Community in Chisinau, a meeting was held between the Presidents of Azerbaijan and Ukraine - Ilham Aliyev and Vladimir Zelensky.

Armenia is not an ally of Russia in the conflict with Ukraine and no one in general. This was stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. According to him, the West believes that Armenia is an ally of Russia, while in Moscow, on the contrary, they do not see it as their ally in the war with Ukraine.

40-year-old Khavazhi Magomadov died in the temporary detention center of the ROVD of the Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny. The cause of death was not reported, but human rights activists suspect massacre. He was convicted after being tortured and falsifying a criminal case, Civic Assistance reported.

On June 1, 2001, at dawn in the western part of Urus-Martan, up to 30 armed officers of an unidentified Russian security agency blocked a residential area. Some of them then broke into the Tasataevs' (Shvernika Street, 5) and conducted an unsanctioned search without showing any documents.

State Duma Deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov recorded a video message to Yevgeny Prigozhin (the head of Wagner PMC), in which he asked him to name the date and place of the meeting. He will personally give answers regarding the activities of the Akhmat unit.

Residents of the North Caucasus have taken loans, including mortgages, for 828 billion rubles. This is a record figure since 2010, according to the Central Bank.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili supported the people of Ukraine during her speech in the European Parliament.
“I want to express here my personal admiration for President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people. I believe that in the near future both our countries will have their representatives in this hall,” the Georgian leader noted.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four Crimean Tatar activists to lengthy prison terms for participating in the activities of the Islamic political organization Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, recently threatened Ukraine with "revenge in the fullest sense of the word" in connection with the drone attacks on Moscow. Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, reacted to his statement.