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Two drones were shot down over Tula region, south of Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said early on August 29.
Many Central Asian migrants are among the estimated 50,000 prisoners who were sent from Russian jails by the Wagner mercenary group to fight in Ukraine. While some volunteered with promises of early release, there are accounts that others were coerced to enlist.
The former head of the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Filatov, has died at the age of 87.
A Ukrainian anti-tank unit has been on the hunt for Russian armor using the Stuhna guided-rocket system to destroy military vehicles worth millions of dollars. According to Ukraine, Russia has lost over 4,000 tanks and 8,000 armed personnel carriers during the full-scale invasion.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is attending the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, declined to comment on the reported death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the chief of the Wagner mercenary group and instigator of a botched mutiny in Russia in late June.
Prosecutors asked a court on August 24 in Russia's Siberian region of Buryatia to sentence 61-year-old Natalya Filonova to three years in prison on a charge of assaulting police.
A court in Russia's Urals city of Yekaterinburg on August 24 fined the local branch of the Memorial human rights group 350,000 rubles ($3,700) for "failure to properly report its activities as a foreign agent."
Svitlana Orikhova has learned not to sleep by day -- too many curious passersby look into her tent. The Kharkiv resident's apartment is still badly damaged from Russian shelling and she worries the ceiling may fall in, so she sleeps in a tent outside.
Czech authorities have seized property in Prague belonging to the daughter and son-in-law of Boris Obnosov, CEO of the Russian defense company Tactical Missiles Corporation and the country’s chief rocket scientist, over Ukraine-linked sanctions.
Ukrainian engineers are using 3D printing technology to speed up the building of new homes to replace those destroyed by war. Natalya Beryozova lost her house near the city of Irpin when Russians shelled it in 2022. Now, 3D construction is creating new concrete walls for her.
A court in Moscow has sent to pretrial detention the director-general of the company that organized an excursion into Moscow’s sewer tunnels for seven people, all of whom along with a guide died over the weekend following heavy rain.
The First Court of Appeals of Common Jurisdiction in Moscow has rejected an appeal filed by well-known Ukrainian human rights defender Maksym Butkevych against a 13-year prison sentence he was handed by Russia-imposed authorities in Ukraine's eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in March.
More than 30 residents from the village of Serebryanka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region have refused to evacuate as Russian forces increase rocket attacks nearby. Volunteers have been striving to get pensioners to leave areas in danger throughout Ukraine but many will not abandon their homes.
Vitaliy Shumey is being treated at a specialist neurorehabilitation center in Spain after losing part of his skull in a Russian attack. His case, and his father's devoted care, have attracted widespread attention in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived on August 21 in Greece for talks with the country's leaders and to attend an informal meeting of representatives of Balkan countries and top European Union officials.
The massive crackdown on dissent in Belarus over the past three years has left nearly 1,500 political prisoners behind bards, according to a prominent human rights group. Many of them have their young children waiting on the other side for them to be released.
The Russian Justice Ministry on August 18 added seven more individuals to its foreign agents list, including prominent Kremlin critics Andrei Piontkovsky, Andrei Illarionov, and Linor Goralik.
Lithuania closed two of its six border checkpoints with Belarus on August 18 in a move it announced earlier this month citing the security risk posed by Russia's Wagner mercenary group. Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland have increased border security since Wagner fighters from Russia arrived in Belarus.
The Minsk City Court has sentenced Natallya Petrovich, a 68-year-old Belarusian citizen, to six years in prison and fined her 3,000 Belarusian rubles ($1,183) for comments she made online about officials.
Belarusian authorities have designated two 19th-century poems by a writer who is considered a father of Belarusian literature as extremist.
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