In Moscow, the Basmanny Court ruled in absentia to arrest Vasily Malyuk (listed as a terrorist and extremist), head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), on charges of organizing a terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge, as well as involvement in the murder of famous personalities and other terrorist acts. The court's decision is based on Malyuk's confessions, made in an interview, about Kyiv's direct participation in the sabotage on the Crimean Bridge and responsibility for the death of war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky and political figure Ilya Kiva.

In addition, the court arrested in absentia Andrei Yangolenko, commander of the special battalion “Slobozhanshchina” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, accused of an attempt on the life of a Russian law enforcement officer and cruel treatment of prisoners of war.