According to the Ukrainian foreign minister, Russia does not have enough troops to "invade" and its main goal is to panic the Ukrainian population.

Investigators in Voronezh opened a criminal case against a 27-year-old US citizen who violated public order on a train while intoxicated and kicked a policeman several times.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has fallen ill with a coronavirus infection.

An anti-terrorist operation has been imposed in the Turksib district of Alma-Ata for a day, Orda.kz reports quoting the city's anti-terrorist operational headquarters.

Ukrainian nationalist organisations are recruiting citizens with combat experience in Donbass.

There is no specific agenda for the Normandy format summit yet, the head of the Ukrainian president's office, Andriy Yermak, has said.

Ruslan Shamshiev, Managing Director of the Kazakh company "Operator ROP", committed suicide, reports Informburo.kz with reference to the police. The police opened a criminal case under the article on incitement to suicide.

The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, sees himself neither as president of Russia nor as a minister, or in any other position at the federal level.