In Russia, three lawyers of Alexei Navalny have been sentenced to several years in prison. Navalny died in an Arctic prison last year and was the main political rival of President Vladimir Putin. Navalny communicated with the world through his lawyers, which his team said was through social media.

1. These three lawyers of Navalny were found guilty of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced. Igor Sergunin, Alexey Liptsar and Vadim Kobzev were tried behind closed doors in Petushki, east of Moscow, and sentenced to three and a half, five and five and a half years respectively.
2. A Russian oil depot caught fire in a Ukrainian drone attack. The fire broke out in Kaluga area of ​​Russia. Video footage of fire in oil storage depot has surfaced on social media. Several fire brigade vehicles are shown running in the direction of the explosion. Kaluga Governor Vladislav Shapsha said that an industrial area has been affected. However, he did not give much information about this.
3. Thousands of people gathered in an anti-government protest in Serbia’s capital Belgrade on Friday. Anti-government protesters stood in silence for 15 minutes in front of the state television RTS building in memory of the victims of the railway station roof collapse. He blamed the Serbian authorities for this accident. The protest was organized and led by students of the Belgrade State University. The students demand that those responsible for the roof collapse, in which more than a dozen people were killed, be brought to justice.
4. A former CIA officer pleaded guilty on Friday to leaking top US intelligence documents about Israeli military plans to retaliate against Iran. Asif Rehman, 34, worked for the Central Intelligence Agency since 2016 and had a top secret security clearance. Asif Rahman was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia in November. Rahman faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in a federal court in Virginia to two counts of knowingly retaining and disseminating national defense information.
5. The UN human rights chief warned on Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming “more dangerous” for civilians after reports of army-allied fighters carrying out ethnic-based attacks on minorities. “The situation for civilians in Sudan is already dire and there is evidence of war crimes and other atrocious crimes,” UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk said in a statement.