Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that construction of the Zangezur Corridor in the country is nearing completion. He expressed confidence that the August agreements reached in Washington with Armenia to connect the mainland of Azerbaijan with the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic will contribute to expanding international transit opportunities.

Due to the damage caused to the Azerbaijani embassy in Ukraine by Russian strikes, Baku summoned the Russian ambassador and presented him with a note of protest. The Azerbaijani side reported significant damage, including damage to part of the wall, buildings, official vehicles, the administrative building, and the consular section.

After Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov threatened a blood feud against Dagestani senator Suleiman Kerimov amid the Wildberries conflict, the latter sought refuge in a secret village on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow. This was reported by the Agency.

Today marks the 81st anniversary of the deportation of the Meskhetian Turks. In November 1944, on Stalin's orders, approximately 86,000 Meskhetian Turks were forcibly deported from Meskheti (a region in modern-day Georgia) to Central Asia. This deportation resulted in the deaths of 17,000 people, and the survivors found new homes in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

At a Baku military court hearing, the prosecutor's office presented the requested sentences for 15 former Nagorno-Karabakh leaders accused of war crimes.

Yerevan and the United States are considering two lease terms for the road through Azerbaijan, known as the "Trump Route" (TRIPP): 49 or 99 years. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this at a conference on regional security.

Remnants of an Iskander missile fired at Kyiv damaged the Azerbaijani embassy building. The munition fell on the grounds of the diplomatic mission, leaving a large crater. The strike destroyed part of the embassy wall, shattered windows, and damaged vehicles belonging to diplomatic mission staff.

Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has appealed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to include him on the list of civilian prisoners of the Russian-Ukrainian war "with the corresponding legal consequences." As a Ukrainian citizen, he believes he is "illegally held by the pro-Russian regime in Georgia."

After making comments about "crypto-khokhols" against Kremlin bloggers of Ukrainian descent, RT contributor and propagandist Ilya Remeslo was forced to apologize at the insistence of Apti Alaudinov.

In 14 Russian regions, including Ingushetia and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, a number of commercial medical institutions have renounced their licenses to perform abortions. This was announced by Priest Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, Motherhood, and Childhood.