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President Vladimir Putin on November 19 signed a decree updating and expanding Moscow's nuclear doctrine to allow for the use of atomic weapons in case of an attack on Russia by a non-nuclear actor that is backed by a nuclear power.
November 19 marks 1,000 days since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Current Time asked residents of Kyiv how and when they think the war might end.
U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to let Kyiv hit targets deeper inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles comes as Moscow's war on Ukraine passes its 1,000th day. While some experts say the move will boost Ukraine's defense capabilities, others say it came too late.
A Moscow court on November 18 sentenced Daniil Golikov, 28, and Andrei Kozlovsky, 26, to 2.5 and 3 years in a colony-settlement for vandalizing an informal memorial to participants in the war in Ukraine.
Russian opposition figures headed a march in Berlin condemning President Vladimir Putin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. "Freedom for Russia, victory for Ukraine!" was one of the slogans heard in the German capital on November 17.
Nearly 2,000 exiled Russians and other opponents of President Vladimir Putin and his unprovoked war against Ukraine marched to the Russian Embassy in Berlin on November 17, with leading activist Yulia Navalnaya declaring that “Putin is a murderer.”
A Ukrainian police officer from Mariupol has returned to service in the embattled Donetsk region after being captured during the siege of the Azovstal steel plant and spending months in a prison camp run by Russian forces.
Ahead of what opposition leaders abroad hope will be a major demonstration in Berlin this weekend against Putin’s government and its war on Ukraine, controversy over a powerful and pervasive symbol -- the Russian flag -- has sparked a dispute.
Opposition leaders in Georgia's Moscow-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia claimed late on November 15 that lawmakers were mediating as a dispute continued with the region's leadership after opposition supporters stormed the local parliament over a controversial proposed deal with Moscow.
A Kyiv church has installed heat pumps and a hospital in Odesa has built a solar panel station as groups across Ukraine look to alternative energy sources in the face of continued Russian attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure. Analysts say Ukraine can expect more long power cuts this winter.
More than a dozen wounded Russian contract soldiers who had fought in Ukraine reportedly fled a military unit near the city of Novosibirsk in southern Siberia after they were told they were being sent back to the battlefield despite their injuries.
Russia’s State Duma passed a bill on November 12 in its second and third readings that would ban “childfree propaganda,” marking the government’s latest move to regulate social discourse while pushing President Vladimir Putin's family values agenda.
A 68-year-old Russian pediatrician has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges related to the dissemination of so-called fake news about the Russian military after a patient's mother accused her of making antiwar comments made during an appointment.
A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Haykel Ben Mahfoudh on a charge of "illegal incarceration."
Natalya is one of only 4,000 remaining residents in Lyman in eastern Ukraine. She feeds the birds every day and says they will being peace. Russian forces have recently ramped up their attacks on the town.
Flying at night to avoid detection, drones are often the only way to get water, food, and ammunition to frontline Ukrainian troops. Current Time filmed with the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Pokrovsk area of Ukraine's Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported that the bodies of 563 servicemen have been returned to Ukraine, of whom 320 were killed in Donetsk, 89 in Bakhmut, and another 154 had been in morgues on Russian territory.
More than 40 countries from Europe and beyond have met in Budapest for a summit of the European Political Community summit. Donald Trump's return to the White House and the possible knock-on effects on the war in Ukraine topped the agenda, as RFE/RL's Olena Abramovych reports.
Sergei Markelov, a Russian journalist living in the United States, said he is wanted in Russia, where a criminal case has been opened against him.
Ukrainian soldiers have diverse opinions on Donald Trump's election as U.S. president. "We need to think how to win the war, not what Trump will do," said a fighter stoically, while his fellow in arms hoped the president-elect would "do something good for Ukraine."
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