What happened today in brief: 5 October
- •Russia used Shahed-136 kamikaze drones it bought off Iran to attack the town of Bila Tserkva near Kyiv, one person was injured.
- •Alexander Burkov, the governor of Russia’s Omsk region, revealed that his region has no money in the treasury for payouts to mobilised men: “Moscow can pay 50,000 a month, but we can’t afford this.”
- •A unnamed indivudal from Penza became Russia's first man to face criminal charges for avoiding mobilisation.
- •Ilya Yashin, a Russian politician and Alexey Navalny’s ally, was handed charges for “denying violation of rights of DPR and LPR citizens”
- •The International Boxing Association announced it would allow boxers from Russia and Belarus to participate in their competitions.
