Mikhail Galustyan announced a TV show about drone operators in front of Putin at a Popular Front forum. Putin backed the project, calling propaganda “an extremely important thing,” and also spoke about war donations and fuel supplies.
Residents of northern annexed Crimea say many towns have had no electricity for seven to 13 days. Sergey Aksyonov said it is currently impossible to draw up precise power supply schedules.
Politician Boris Nadezhdin was detained in Dolgoprudny. The case concerns a protocol on displaying “extremist” symbols after he shared a link to a stream showing a photo of Alexey Navalny. A guilty ruling could bar him from elections for a year.
A military commissariat in Yekaterinburg asked Ural State Law University for data on expelled students and 2026 graduates for contract recruitment into unmanned systems troops.
The New York Times reports that Israel maintained contacts with former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for years, hoping to use him after a possible collapse of the regime. Iranian officials now say he is under house arrest.