"We didn't prepare for this war, we don't need it," the Yugra governor said at a meeting with residents of Nizhnevartovsk. She has already been reported to the police, @meduza_en reports
A Court in Makhachkala gave a 7-year suspended sentence to a man who bought a pistol & fired it ~30 times in the forest, @mediazona reports. The court considered his "direct participation" in the war in Ukraine, where he was wounded, as a mitigating circumstance.
Recommended follow list for Ukraine war on Mastodon
Here are my recommendations for coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Only accounts active recently and you can easily import them from a file. They are split into two different lists by type.
Ukraine: OSINT & war updates
This list mostly has accounts posting quickly about daily events of the war and doing open source intelligence.
The import file relies on the List import feature recently added to Mastodon. I have noticed the list import results in a few accounts sometimes ending up in their separate list by the same name so you may have to fix that manually afterwards if this happens on your instance. If many people are on an older Mastodon version and want it I can also post a follows file that will work for those.
Import instructions:
Sign into your instance on the web
go to settings (Gear icon)
Choose Import and Export -> Import
For import type choose "Lists" (could also be "Translation missing: en.imports.types.lists" if there is an issue with the localization).
Select "merge" to only add to your current follows/lists so nothing you have gets deleted
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Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 516 of the invasion
Russian missile attack on Odesa leaves at least one dead and 22 wounded and damages historic cathedral; Putin says Ukrainian counteroffensive has ‘failed’