Rostov Region

June 11, 2026 21:15

• Comments about the Taliban and migrants led to a fine for a Rostov resident.

  A Rostov-on-Don court fined 19-year-old Yegor Akatyshev ten thousand rubles for inciting hatred in social media comments. One of the grounds for the prosecution was a comment suggesting that the Taliban had no place in Russia.

June 11, 2026 03:14

• A fire at the Afipsky oil refinery broke out after a drone attack.

  During a drone attack on the Seversky district of Kuban, the territory of an oil refinery in the village of Afipsky caught fire.

June 11, 2026 02:15

• Dagestan native Bashirov received a new sentence for terrorism-related charges.

  A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Dagestani native Makhach Bashirov to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of financing ISIS*. Bashirov had previously received a lengthy prison sentence for plotting a terrorist attack in Kislovodsk.

June 10, 2026 17:35

• Rostov activist Anastasia Shevchenko* was convicted of recruiting for the Azov Regiment**.

  Anastasia Shevchenko* was sentenced in absentia to 17 years in prison. The sentence stemmed from a video in which Shevchenko* talked about donating to Azov.**

June 10, 2026 06:57

• A Rostov court sentenced a Sevastopol resident for justifying terrorism.

  The Southern District Military Court sentenced a Sevastopol resident to 5.5 years for comments on a messenger deemed to justify terrorism.

June 10, 2026 02:30

• Residents of a nursing home in the Rostov region were evacuated after a drone attack.

  In the Millerovsky district, a fuel tank caught fire after a drone attack, evacuating residents of private homes and nursing home residents.

June 09, 2026 17:50

• The death toll of Azerbaijani citizens in the Sea of ​​Azov has increased.

  The bodies of two more Azerbaijani citizens have been found in the Sea of ​​Azov following the drone attacks on the cargo ships Natra and Zirkon. This brings the total number of Azerbaijani fatalities to six.

June 09, 2026 11:37

• A fighter from the Rostov region was killed in a military operation.

  Viktor Yakovlev from Gukovo was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 898 soldiers from the Rostov region have been officially recognized as killed.

June 09, 2026 10:38

• Residents of Gukovo recorded a video message to authorities demanding an end to the closure of kindergartens.

  In Gukovo, residents of the Antratsit mine village recorded a collective video appeal to the authorities demanding an end to the closure of kindergartens in the city. The education department explained that this is being done to optimize facilities and save money.

June 09, 2026 02:50

• A Ukrainian man living in the Rostov region has been sentenced for tattoos.

  The Court of Cassation upheld the sentence of Ukrainian native Pavel Tsukanov, who was sentenced in the Rostov region to two years in a penal colony for displaying tattoos with Nazi symbols.

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