Non-Moscow news for the night of February 22
🔹 A man and a three-year-old girl were injured near a farmstead. Handsomely — a drone attacked the car they were traveling in, the governor said. Belgorod area Vyacheslav Gladkov.
🔹 Two people were killed in a Russian attack on Zaporozhye region Ukraine, the head of the OVA reported. Four more were killed and one was injured due to Russian attacks in Sumy. area.
🔹 Against Russia's youngest political prisoner Arseniy Turbin A new criminal case was opened. "Arseniy's lawyer previously filed a complaint with the investigative department alleging that a notebook containing AUE notes was planted in his nightstand. No further details are available at this time." — the support group reported. Arseniy Turbin from Orlovskaya area In June 2024, he was sentenced to five years in prison. According to investigators, he allegedly applied to the Freedom of Russia Legion and then, on instructions from a representative of the organization, distributed leaflets critical of Putin in mailboxes. Arseny insisted he had not joined the legion and that he distributed the leaflets out of personal conviction.
🔹 After Chinese tourists died under the ice Baikal two more cars fell through the lake - in the area Olkhonskaya An ice crossing that was never opened due to poor ice conditions. On the evening of February 20, rescuers discovered a Toyota Land Cruiser with a woman and child inside (they were rescued). On the morning of February 21, a JAC van carrying four vacationers fell through the ice. They were also rescued.
🔹 The substance that killed Alexey Bulk, synthesized by the Signal Center. It also participated in the 2020 poisoning of a politician with Novichok, according to the Agency. In 2015, Signal secretly published an article on the synthesis of epibatidine analogs. Its authors were chemists. Igor Babkin, Sergei Galan, Georgy Nazarov и Alexey Aksenov, Olga Yudina, Alexey Lamanov. "Apparently, epibatidine was obtained not at GosNIIOKhT, but at Signal: the Diels-Alder reaction, protection of the amino group, and cyclization were all Babkin's work, while the production of carfentanils, palladium on carbon, could have been done by Sergei Galan," — an anonymous Russian chemist suggested in a comment to The Insider.
🔹 Activists have restored the memorial plaque on the house where she lived, worked, and was killed for the twentieth time. Anna PolitkovskayaThey intend to continue this until the memorial plaque remains in place forever.
Video: Drowning tourists on Lake Baikal on February 20. Source: DTP 38RUS
