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Russian contract soldier Kamil Kasimov, who fled Russia for Kazakhstan last year to avoid being sent to the war in Ukraine, has been sentenced to six years in prison in Russia, the 72.ru website quoted his friends as saying on September 3.
Two Russian missiles struck a military training facility in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava on September 3, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200. Military observers questioned why a large number of people were gathered at the site, making them vulnerable to a single attack.
There is no war fatigue in Russia yet because Putin and the government-controlled media have been convincing society that "there is no war," exiled Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky says, adding that once Putin "creates the feeling that there is a war, the clock will start ticking" for him.
The European Union on September 3 criticized Mongolia for failing to enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the country.
Russian opposition political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was released from a Russian prison last month in a major prisoner swap between Russia and the West, says Mongolian authorities "must arrest" President Vladimir Putin during his visit to the East Asian country.
Mongolia is obliged to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived on a state visit to the East Asian nation on September 2, according to exiled Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza.
Belarusian Alyaksandr Avdevich is the founder of the Inclusive Barista, a Warsaw cafe that provides opportunities for Belarusian migrants with disabilities. The site is part of a larger social project that Avdevich started following an injury that left him without the use of his legs.
Russia's Investigative Committee said on August 29 that it has launched a probe on fraud charges against former Defense Minister Pavel Popov, part of an ongoing campaign against top military officials.
At least nine people were killed by fresh Russian attacks on two Ukrainian regions on August 28 as Kyiv's drones struck three Russian regions, setting an oil depot on fire in Russia's Rostov region.
Former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov has called on the Red Cross to intervene to alleviate the situation of Aleksei Gorinov, who is serving a 7-year sentence that rights groups and his supporters say it is politically motivated.
Since the dismantling of Belarusian civil society after the crackdown on pro-democracy protests that broke out in 2020, orphans and other disadvantaged children have been increasingly subjected to a highly ideologized “military-patriotic” education run in part by the Defense and Interior ministries.
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.
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