Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and one of the senior commanders of the Wagner, Andrei Troshev.

Putin instructed the former chief of staff of the Wagner, Troshev, to deal with the so-called "formation of volunteer units".

Yevkurov recently completed a tour of the regions where Wagner has the largest presence.

Troshev currently heads part of the group that accepted the offer of the Russian authorities after the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin. He's now part of the Russian MoD.

Armenia wants its money from Russia

Given the difficult social situation in Armenia, Armenia turned to Russia to return approximately $400 million paid to Moscow for weapons, the supply of which never began.

However, the Russian side refused to return the money, citing the fact that the contracts for the supply of weapons have not yet been terminated.

Kazakh President Tokayev:

Kazakhstan is not “anti-Russia” and firmly adheres to the course of full cooperation with Moscow.

Sanctions confrontation counterproductive. Kazakhstan does not participate in parallel imports to Russia.

Tokayev called for finding a “mutually acceptable basis” for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and noted that the world has “approached the dangerous point of fatal confrontation”.

Russian military source Fighter Bomber says another Russian Su-35 fighter jet has been lost.

The pilot appears to be killed.

Armenia boycotts meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) defense ministers.

Armenian Defense Minister Suren Papikyan refused to participate in the meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries, held in the Russian city of Tula.

It appears that Russian forces shot down their own Su-35 fighter jet over Tokmak last nigth in a friendly fire incident.

#BREAKING The former leader of the Armenian gangs in Karabakh, Lieutenant General Levon Mnatsakanyan, was arrested at the Lachin border crossing point by Azerbaijan forces.

Ukrainian soldier misfires Swedish AT-4 anti-armour weapon launcher.

Azerbaijani President Aliyev:

Today, I am sending a message to the parties who have unacceptable plans against Azerbaijan:

Don't play with our patience. We are patient but determined.

We can and do prove ourselves right. Not because we have power, because justice is on our side.

Gnel Sanosyan, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures of Armenia:

I think that tonight or tomorrow the last Armenian will leave Karabakh.

This is how the Russian attack started against Ukraine on February 24

Footage from Ukrainian situation center of the National Security and Defense Council showing diagram of Russian strikes during the first day of the war on February 24-25, 2022.

Footage from the training of Russian FPV kamikaze drone pilots.

Drone pilots learn to find loopholes in buildings where the other side hides their military equipment, fly into them and hit targets.

Turkish Defence Minister Yaşar Güler:

Armenia's fulfillment of its promises, particularly the opening of the Zangezur Corridor, and the continuation of result-oriented negotiations is the only way to establish stability.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:

Very difficult questions would need to be answered before the EU could even start membership talks with Ukraine.

We cannot avoid the question - when during the autumn we will have negotiations in Brussels about the future of Ukraine - whether we can actually seriously consider membership for a country, to start accession talks with a country that is at war.

We don't know how big the territory of this country is, as the war is still ongoing, we don't know how big its population is as they are fleeing ... to admit a country to the EU without knowing its parameters, this would be unprecedented.

So I think we need to answer very long and difficult questions until we get to actually deciding about the start of accession talks.

Former deputy commander of the Defense Army of the Republic of Artsakh, Major General David Manukyan, was arrested for terrorist crimes committed by him in Karabakh by State Security Service of Azerbaijan.

Finnish media reports that Finnish Armed Forces are entering into secret agreements with landowners to build fortifications near the Russian border.

According to the publications, such agreements are designed for 20 years, and the farmers who have signed the agreements already number in the dozens.

The landowner, concluding a deal, receives a one-time payment of 750 euros, and if work begins, 4,800 euros plus compensation for damage caused.

One such agreement, cited by the publication, states:

“The defense forces inform the land owner about urgent construction by telephone, email or letter no later than 1 day before the start of work.”

Weapons worth more than 30 million hryvnias: Kyiv police exposed the criminals who kept the Russians TOR air defence system.

The 38- and 45-year-old residents of Boryspil district illegally obtained and stored the anti-aircraft missile system and ammunition of Russian forces.

According to preliminary data, the weapons were left behind by Russian troops during hostilities in the territory of Chernihiv region.

First, the police discovered and seized the anti-aircraft missile system TOR, which one of the suspects was hiding in the Brovar district.

After carrying out a number of operative and search measures, the law enforcement officers managed to establish the location of military supplies to the system - they were kept by the second offender in another region of the Kyiv region in a rented garage box.

According to the court's decision, the ammunition was transferred to the needs of the Armed Forces. The cost of missiles is about 30 million hryvnias.

Ukrainian President Zelensky:

Tomorrow there will be important news for Ukraine: for our soldiers, for our entire state.

Armenians now claim Crimea is theirs.

Vladimir Poghosyan, former Chief National Security Adviser to the President of Armenia:

“We can take Armavir, Sochi, and Crimea. Crimea in general is rightfully 70% Armenian.”