Crimea

TV4 Nyheterna is reporting that a missing elderly man has been found, a story currently topping its coverage in Sweden. The bulletin sits alongside a busy Swedish news day: SL says its half-price monthly travel card offer will soon end, a bus drove off the road outside Växjö, a Swedish citizen is suspected murdered in Iraq, and reports note drone attacks on Crimea and a boy still treated for life-threatening injuries.

Drone strikes have halted Russia's project to widen a key road bridge to four lanes on the route to occupied Crimea. Construction cranes on the Mius crossing were also hit, according to Rostov's governor, leaving the important link to Russia's occupied southern territories out of use. The damage adds to pressure on supply routes Russia relies on to sustain its occupation.

Severe weather is sweeping across Crimea, with heavy rains flooding roads and basements and wind knocking down trees and power poles, disrupting daily life across the peninsula. Separately, the governor of Sevastopol travelled to Moscow to ask the federal government to extend the preferential mortgage programme to the region, a request residents are watching closely as housing costs rise.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius declared that Crimea is Ukrainian territory that must be returned. He also said Kyiv should be the one to decide the conditions for starting negotiations with Russia. The remarks reaffirm Berlin's position on Ukraine's territorial integrity at a time of ongoing debate in the West about possible peace terms.

A Brussels event titled '10 Years of Resistance' examined a decade of human rights violations in Russian-occupied Crimea, organised by the Ukrainian human rights centre ZMINA. The gathering highlighted repression, persecution of Crimean Tatars and other abuses since the 2014 annexation, marking ten years of occupation and continued resistance by residents of the peninsula.