A deserter reportedly killed and dismembered three women in the Nizhny Novgorod region. In Udmurtia, a single father was allegedly abducted and forcibly sent to war, while in Izhevsk, activist Dmitry Morozov was detained after winning a court case against the city administration. Drone attacks targeted oil facilities in the Samara region and Bashkortostan.

A man deported from the US was sentenced to six years in prison for a photo with a mannequin of Putin. In Saratov, a pensioner reportedly called the police over a figurine of the elf Dobby. These and other news are covered in the weekly segment 'Povolzhye: The Price of War'.