Bulgarian journalist Christo Grozev, who had a leading role in Russia’s collective Bellingcats investigation and was previously at the center of their investigation into the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, attended an open video link meeting on Monday with reporters from the independent Russian newspaper Novaya. gazeta.

According to Bojan Pancevski, correspondent for the American newspaper The Wallstreet Journal, he stated here that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, along with several high-ranking officials – possibly including Putin – may be in a nuclear bunker near the Russian city of Ufa.

This information is based on up-to-date flight data, Pancevski wrote.

Grozev won the European Press Award for Investigative Journalism for his investigation into the poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripal in the UK in 2018.

On Saturday, Shojgu appeared in public for the first time since March 11, when Russia’s Defense Ministry published a video of an army meeting chaired by the minister.

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Russia’s independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta explained on Tuesday that it would halt all activity until Russia’s “special military operations” in Ukraine ended, Reuters reports.

Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov is the editor of the newspaper.

In early March, Russian authorities introduced strict rules on how Russian media could cover what was happening in Ukraine. Failure to do so can result in up to 15 years in prison.

As a consequence of the new rules, Novaya Gazeta said in a statement in early March that it would remove content about the war in Ukraine from their websites and social media.

According to the newspaper itself, on Monday they received a new written warning from Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor, threatening to revoke their license. This means that they have to postpone production.