Non-Moscow news for the night of March 17

🔹 Yesterday evening, from 22:25 pm to 20:20 pm Moscow time, air defense forces destroyed six drones over Volgograd, Rostov и Tula regions, the Ministry of Defense reported.

🔹 In Saratov photographer Nurlan Sultanov received five days of arrest for the photo Alexey Navalny On February 16, he attached a photo of the politician to the city monument to Nikolai Vavilov. Police officers saw this, asked the photographer to remove the photo, wrote down his passport information, and released him. However, security officials then tried to contact Sultanov, but he didn't respond. The police then persuaded an unknown woman to book a photo shoot with the photographer. When Sultanov arrived at the scene, he was met by two police officers instead of the woman. During his arrest, Nurlan was beaten, according to a lawyer and deputy chairman of the Saratov branch of the Yabloko party. Kyryll RumyantsevSultanov refused to admit guilt.

🔹 The peace treaty may include the presence of "unarmed observers" in Ukraine who will monitor the implementation of aspects of the agreement or guarantee mechanisms, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister stated. Alexander Grushko. "We cannot relax. We have drafted military planning documents that are designed to reliably ensure our country's security and its defense capability in all areas," — the official also said. “It’s good that our military capabilities allow us to reliably mitigate threats without spending crazy amounts of money on them and removing them from the development sphere.”

🔹 Telegram could be fined four million rubles for refusing to remove banned sticker packs, the Roskomnadzor press service reported. Previously, courts in the Kirov region banned 33 sticker packs following lawsuits filed by the prosecutor's office. "Nazi ideology stickers provided for use in instant messengers promote extremism on social media," as stated in court decisions.