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A Ukrainian drone operator is using pictures of facial injuries she sustained in a Russian attack to boost her military fundraising efforts. Yana Zalevska says she was motivated to join the army when her hometown, Kherson, was occupied by Russian forces in 2022.
Russian media reports said on September 19 that the Investigative Committee launched a probe against chief editor of Latvia-based Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper, Kirill Martynov, on charge of "conducting activities of an undesirable organization."
Vladislav Bakalchuk, the husband of Russia's richest woman, Tatyana Bakalchuk, has been detained for 48 hours after a deadly shoot-out at the offices of Wildberries, the country's largest online retailer, founded and led by his estranged wife.
Massive explosions and a huge fire tore through Russia's Tver region early on September 18. The region's governor said debris from a downed drone struck an arms depot, but a Ukrainian military expert said the site had been targeted. Ukrainian drones were reported in several other Russian regions.
When our team visited the Donbas town of Selydove, it found Ukrainian forces holding back Russian assaults using a howitzer called Violetta -- which was captured from Russian troops two years ago. Oleksiy Prodayvoda from Current Time, a Russian-language TV and online network led by RFE/RL, reports.
Built with cutting-edge technology, a Ukrainian family's new 3D-printed house is now becoming a home. Natalya Beryozova lost her husband and home in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin during Russian attacks in the first months of the war in Ukraine.
Russian forces are advancing toward Pokrovsk, a transport hub in eastern Ukraine. Regional authorities have warned civilians that the area is not safe, and thousands have evacuated. But in Myrnohrad, east of Pokrovsk, some residents are determined to stay, even after supply lines were cut off.
Volunteers in eastern Ukraine risk their lives to rescue abandoned pets from frontline towns and villages. The animals that the team catches are often in states of extreme distress after being left behind by fleeing or missing owners.
Ukraine has ramped up domestic drone production to levels where they are now achieving parity with Russia in the skies, officials claim. RFE/RL saw the drones being assembled and tested.
India's NDTV television on September 12 quoted the country's Foreign Ministry as saying that 45 Indian nationals had been discharged from the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine after they were tricked into enlisting.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on September 12 concluded a European tour in Poland, where he heard more appeals for a change in Washington's policy restricting the use of Western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia.
The French Embassy in Azerbaijan on September 12 condemned the imprisonment in the South Caucasus nation of French citizen Theo Clerk over the painting of graffiti on metro trains in Baku. T
The Vyasna human rights center said on September 11 that political prisoner Andrey Buday, who is serving a 15-year prison term on terrorism charges that he and his supporters reject, has been charged with "blatantly disobeying prison guards' orders."
Miroslava Reginskaya, the wife of imprisoned Russian nationalist Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov), has rejected reports saying her husband was released and allowed to join the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
A Russian military court on September 11 sentenced former Russian opposition lawmaker Ilya Ponomaryov, who opposed the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, to 10 years in prison on charges of justifying terrorism and spreading false information about Russia's military.
A freight train derailed in Russia’s Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine, due to what the rail operator said was an “interference in operations.”
Foreign nationals serving terms in Russian prisons have been asked to write requests to serve the remainder of their terms in their homeland following two recent hostage-taking crises in Russian penitentiaries, IStories said on September 10.
The Ukrainian authorities have introduced a curfew and shut down rail connections in the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Russian forces are now just kilometers away. An estimated 26,000 residents remain.
Incumbents and other loyalists of President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party were expected to coast to victory in most of the 21 regional governorships and other local voting that wrapped up in Russian elections that rights groups and independent experts agree lack genuine competition.
The Russian Justice Ministry on September 6 added Zalina Marshenkulova, a feminist activist in exile, to its list of "foreign agents."
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