{
  "id": 2194892,
  "title": "Russian court drops case against senior citizen fined for firing his shotgun at Ukrainian drones over his yard",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/russian-court-drops-case-against-senior-citizen-fined-for-firing-his",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T17:49:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/20/russian-court-drops-case-against-senior-citizen-fined-for-firing-his-shotgun-at-ukrainian-drones-over-his-yard"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Volgograd Regional Court dismissed the case against Nikolai Mukhin, a pensioner who was fined for trying to shoot down Ukrainian drones on his own. A source told the Russian state news agency TASS that the court also ordered his confiscated shotgun returned.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "New Voice of Ukraine",
        "title": "Ukrainian border guards destroy Russian cruise missile with machine gun fire",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/ukrainian-border-guards-destroy-russian-cruise-missile-with-machine",
        "published": "2026-08-20T10:29:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}