Owned by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Ursa Major sinks off the coast of Spain with valuable cargo. A sanctioned Russian cargo vessel, the Ursa Major, has sunk in the Mediterranean Sea following an explosion in its engine room off the coast of Spain. The incident occurred in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Fourteen of the sixteen crew members were rescued and taken to the Spanish port of Cartagena, while two remain missing.

Czech Republic will soon ban Russians over the age of 15 from obtaining citizenship. In a move that should’ve happened back in 2008 when Russia invaded and began occupying two sections of Georgia or again in 2014 when Russia seized Crimea or yet again in 2022 when the Russian population showed overwhelming public support for the full scale genocide operation in Ukraine, the Czech Republic will soon deny Russian citizens the right to Czech citizenship.