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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, said he will not obey a new Russian Defense Ministry decree obliging all volunteer formations to sign a contract directly with the ministry in his latest spat with the nation’s military leadership.
Joint investigating by Mediazona and the BBC's Russian service has recently confirmed more than 1,200 newly identified Russian troop deaths in Ukraine, putting the number of Russians killed and identified through open sources so far in the 15-month invasion at 25,218.
The video has been seen all around the world: a Ukrainian military drone drops bottled water to a family stranded by floodwaters after the breach of a dam in Russian-occupied territory. Now, the mom and her son have spoken to Current Time about how Russian forces left them to their fate.
Ukrainian troops attacked enemy positions with a captured Russian tank and retook land north of Bakhmut. The gains by Ukrainian forces come after Russia's Wagner mercenary group said it took control of the city and was handing it over to regular Russian forces.
Rescue teams are working to save thousands of people trapped by flooding caused by the rupture of a major dam in Ukraine's Kherson region. Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov spoke to residents who remain in their homes for now, and was forced to run for cover as shelling was heard nearby.
Flooding in the area under Russian occupation on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River is "10 times" worse than in Ukrainian-controlled areas, according to a Ukrainian official in the region. Dramatic footage shows civilians in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky being helped by a Ukrainian drone.
Boat after boat of exhausted and stressed civilians arrived in the flooded streets of Kherson on June 7. Some of the people had made it here from Russian-occupied areas on the east bank of the Dnieper River.
Russian anti-war activist and anarchist Aleksei Rozhkov was deported from Kyrgyzstan in late May and is currently in pretrial detention in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg for allegedly setting the building of a military recruitment center in the town of Beryozovsky on fire in March 2022.
A young Russian activist has recounted how he was forced to take drugs that affected his cognitive abilities as part of his punishment for staging illegal protests, in what appears to be a trend toward reviving the Soviet-era practice of sending regime critics to psychiatric facilities.
The Kremlin says a radio address supposedly given by President Vladimir Putin about imposing martial law in Russia’s three regions bordering Ukraine and announcement of "a full-scale mobilization" that was broadcast on several radio stations earlier in the day was "fake."
The Russian Ministry of Defense says its forces managed to repel an attempt by a "sabotage and reconnaissance group of Ukrainian terrorists" to enter the settlement of Novaya Tavolzhanka in Russia's Belgorod region near the border with Ukraine.
Russian authorities on June 4 called on residents of an area on the Ukrainian border to leave their homes "temporarily."
A 63-year-old Ukrainian soldier with the call sign "Granddad" is fighting to defend his ancestral Cossack homeland in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region.
A Ukrainian reconnaissance unit flies a domestically developed Leleka drone over the city of Bakhmut. The Leleka, which means stork in English, tracks enemy movements in the area. Russia claims its forces have taken full control of Bakhmut, but Ukraine insists it still holds a part of the city.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has frozen more assets of Oksana Marchenko, the wife of pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
Amid a new wave of Russian drone attacks on Ukraine, analysts in Kyiv are gaining useful intelligence from downed Russian aerial weapons. They study the remains of Iranian Shahed drones and Russian Kinzhal missiles, among others. Ukrainians are finding ways to intercept some hypersonic missiles.
A court in the Russian city of Tomsk has fined a retired police lieutenant colonel 1 million rubles ($12,350) in a case of alleged military "fakes" for anti-war posts he made on social media.
Authorities in Latvia's capital, Riga, have moved a statue of 19th-century Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin from a downtown park to a warehouse, local media reported on May 30.
Russia launched a fresh wave of drone strikes on Kyiv on May 30 killing at least one person and wounding several others, but Ukrainian authorities said most of the drones were shot down by the capital's air defenses, while Moscow was subjected to a rare drone attack that damaged several buildings.
A drone attack took place in Moscow on the morning of May 30, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel.
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