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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv has conducted its first test of a domestically produced ballistic missile as Russia unleashed a second day of deadly strikes on across Ukraine.
At least 4 people were killed while several others were either wounded or missing on August 27 in a second massive drone and missile Russian attack on Ukraine in as many days that included a strike on a hotel in Kryviy Rih, in the southern region of Dnipropetrovsk.
The detention of Pavel Durov, the Russian-born co-founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has been extended by a French investigative judge until August 28 as Moscow expressed outrage over what it said appeared to be "a direct attempt to restrict freedom of communication."
Some residents who had been holding out in the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk have been evacuated as Russian troops close in. Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov spoke to civilians boarding trains bound for Dnipro on August 24.
Former Wagner Group fighter Ivan Rossomakhin, who was sentenced in April for murdering and raping an elderly woman in Russia, has been released and sent back to the war in Ukraine, the Travmpunkt rights group said on August 26.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukraine's global allies to take "decisive action" after Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other cities across the country that damaged vital utilities.
Russian officials have reportedly been instructed to delete all work correspondence from the messaging application Telegram after its founder, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France.
From electricians to truck drivers to road maintenance workers, more and more Ukrainian women have been taking up technical jobs or manual labor. Some sectors, like farming, face a 60 percent labor shortage after a large number of male workers were mobilized to fight in the military.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on August 23 that it launched an investigation into the suicide of teen athlete Ksenia Cheponova, which she apparently carried out as a result of a bullying over her ethnicity.
Ukraine's military said its forces came under repeated attack on August 21 around the town of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, where Russian forces are pressing for a breakthrough.
Hospitals and shops in Ukrainian-held areas of Russia are not working, and civilians are facing shortages of food and water, according to a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Speaking to Current Time on August 19, Mykhaylo Podolyak said humanitarian aid was being provided.
Ukraine continues to press its incursion into Russia's border region of Kursk and now controls hundreds of square kilometers of territory, but its action is meant to create a buffer zone and not to acquire or occupy Russian lands, the Ukrainian leadership has said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has again pushed for permission from Ukraine's allies to use long-range weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy said more prisoners were captured in his country's advance into Russia's Kursk region on August 19, as Moscow said that a third bridge had been damaged by Ukrainian attacks there. Meanwhile Ukraine announced the mandatory evacuation of women and children from its town of Pokrovsk
Russian media cited sources close to the Moscow city police department on August 18 as saying that dozens of migrant workers were officially summoned to enlistment centers following police raids over the weekend.
After Ukraine's surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region, Ukrainian troops near Donetsk are still battling Russian advances. Forces near the city of Toretsk say they believe Russia will have to redirect resources back to its own territory, but they have yet to see a letup in the fighting.
Switzerland has imposed sanctions on 27 Belarusians believed to have been involved in repression and human-rights violations since Belarus’s disputed 2020 presidential election.
A court in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson has sentenced Ukrainian citizen Iryna Horobtsova to 10 1/2 years in prison after convicting her of espionage, the Russian Prosecutor-General’s Office said.
A Russian Tu-22M3 bomber crashed in the Irkutsk region in Siberia, Russian state media reported on August 15, citing the Defense Ministry.
A Moscow court has placed U.S. citizen Joseph Tater in pretrial detention until October 14, extending his original 15-day sentence on charges of petty hooliganism.
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