A Ukrainian citizen is reported to have been detained at the Verkhny Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia (part of the Russian Federation), which separates it from the breakaway state of South Ossetia, which is de jure part of Georgia.
The Southern District Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, has sentenced soldier Pavlo Zaporozhets, a Ukrainian citizen, to 12 years' imprisonment. Source: TASS; Radio Liberty Details: Pavlo Zaporozhets was accused in Russia of an attempted "terrorist act" in Kherson on 9 May 2022.
The occupation authorities have decided to put Eduard Varbanskyi, Ukrainian serviceman and mortarman of the Azov Brigade behind bars for 22 years. Source: TASS, citing the press office of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia Details: As reported by the Russian Kremlin-aligned media on 27 September, the "Supreme Court" of the so-called "DNR" sentenced Eduard Varbanskyi to 22 years in prison "for a mortar attack on a school near Mariupol last spring (2022).
Yury Borisov, head of Russian Roscosmos, claimed that the Sarmat strategic missile system was put on combat duty. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin announced its deployment on 23 February 2023. Source: Russian Kremlin-aligned news agency Interfax; Latvian-based Russian media outlet Meduza Details: The Russian Ministry of Defence announced the first successful tests of Sarmat in April 2022.
President of aggressor country Vladimir Putin has spoken out for the first time since the crash of the plane, which, according to Rosaviatsia (the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency), was carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC).