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A Ukrainian woman whose brother, husband, and mother were all killed in Mariupol at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion says she copes with her grief by focusing on her children. Tetyana Lastovych was eight months' pregnant when she found out her husband was killed in action.
A Russian-born émigré tells Current Time how her family hid in a safe room as gunmen searched their home in Israel. Maria Ballach moved to Israel 20 years ago and is a resident of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, an Israeli village near the border with Gaza. She says she could hear the attackers talking.
Noted Turkmen blogger and stand-up comic Muhammed Mammedov has been reportedly beaten to death in Ashgabat after returning from a long stay in Turkey.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya region, has said that a Russian presidential election due next March should either be postponed because of the war in Ukraine or limited to President Vladimir Putin.
Several Russian schools were tricked into sending birthday greetings to President Vladimir Putin bearing a photograph and quotes of a World War II-era Ukrainian partisan leader who has been vilified by the Kremlin.
Russian LGBT activist and artist Yulia Tsvetkova -- who is involved in a high-profile pornography case involving nude drawings and other artwork -- said a court has issued a warrant for her arrest and added her to a wanted list.
Russia's Interior Ministry added the former adviser to Ukraine's presidential office, Oleksiy Arestovich, to its wanted list on unspecified charges a day after Arestovich participated in a forum for self-exiled Russian opposition activists and politicians in Estonia on October 2.
Thirty years on from the war in Abkhazia, civilians and fighters from both sides recall the upheaval that forever changed their lives, and the story of independent Georgia.
Bulgaria will ban the entry of cars with Russian license plates by the end of the day on October 2, the head of Bulgaria's border police, Anton Zlatanov has announced.
A Russian man sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting Russia's army in April, after anti-war drawings by his 13-year-old daughter drew attention to his online posts about the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, has been placed in punitive solitary confinement five times since August.
Ukraine's military on September 25 said the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet was killed along with 33 other naval officers in Ukraine's September 22 attack on the fleet headquarters in Russian-annexed Crimea city of Sevastopol.
Longtime Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has arrived at a maximum-security prison in Siberia to serve a 25-year- sentence for treason and criticism of the invasion of Ukraine and was immediately placed in a punishment cell, a lawyer said.
Several explosions were heard in an area close to a thermal power plant in the city of Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimea. The blasts occurred while rescue teams were cleaning up debris caused by a missile attack on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet earlier in the day.
Russian emergency officials said on September 21 that seven people, including two rescue workers, were killed after an explosion caused by a gas leak ripped through a nine-story apartment block in the city of Balashikha near Moscow a day earlier.
Capitalizing on "any gaps in the enemy's defense," Ukrainian troops said on September 12 they were slowly but steadily reclaiming ground in their counteroffensive to Russia's invasion. The cost is high, they explain, because Russian artillery usually razes retaken villages to the ground.
International monitoring organizations estimate thousands of Ukrainians have been illegally held prisoner and deported by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Their families fight for scraps of information while witnesses recount civilian arrests.
The head of Russia's legendary Bolshoi Ballet has acknowledged removing from the repertoire performances and artists linked to opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked Ukraine's Security Service and naval forces for their role in what he called the destruction of a Russian air-defense system in occupied Crimea.
Two Russian military vessels have been damaged in an apparent large-scale Ukrainian strike on a ship-repair base in Russian-occupied Crimea as Kyiv reported another barrage of Russian drones had struck port infrastructure in the Odesa region.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says former lawmaker Serhiy Polishchuk, who is currently out the country, is suspected of high treason for his appearances on Russian television where he "denied the existence of Ukraine" while allegedly taking money from Russian security authorities.
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