Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who defected to Poland after coaches attempted to force her to return home during the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, said on May 23 that police in Belarus searched her parents' home.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 23 signed a decree allowing to compensate damages caused by confiscation of assets of Russian tycoons and the Central Bank in the United States by the assets, valuable papers and property belonging to the United States or the U.S. citizens in Russia.
Russia said on May 23 that the main power line supplying the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine had gone down, but that there was no threat to safety and the plant was being supplied by a backup line.