Family Bloodshed, a Pickle Attack, and Russia’s Illegal Weapons Problem

A deadly family dispute in the Volgograd region ends with a father accused of shooting his two sons. In the Donetsk region, a repeat offender receives 17 years for killing a man during a drunken argument. In Stary Oskol, a woman attacks her brother with a sickle over a jar of pickled cucumbers. And in the Kursk region, crimes involving illegal weapons have risen by 55%, raising new concerns about firearms, ammunition, and explosives reaching civilian hands.