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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.
Ukrainian forces have taken full control of the Russian town of Sudzha in the Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on August 15, adding that the Ukrainian military is setting up a command office there.
Russian forces launched a ballistic missile strike on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa on August 14, hitting port infrastructure and injuring the driver of a grain truck, the regional governor said.
Ukraine has restricted civilian movements in a 20-kilometer area in the Sumy region bordering Russia, where heavy fighting is under way. Olena Sima is the mayor in the village of Yunakivka. She told RFE/RL that she's worried about the people in her community who remain in the area.
Ukraine's top military commander on August 13 said Ukrainian forces have taken control of 74 settlements in Russia's Kursk region as Ukrainian forces continued to make headway.
A court in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on August 12 handed a suspended four-year prison term to activist Gleb Kalinychev for sending 1,899 rubles ($21.50) to late opposition leader Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) in 2021-22.
Authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who has run Belarus with an iron first for 30 years, has proposed amendments to the country's Criminal Code that would allow punishment for violence and threats against current and former presidents.
A court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of Russia's Kamchatka region in the Far East, on August 12 sentenced a local man to 10 years in prison for beating to death another man who had criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian leaders, including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and military commander Oleksandr Syrskiy, have spoken openly for the first time about their forces' shock incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, with Zelenskiy saying that Moscow must be “forced to make peace.”
A fire at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has been "completely extinguished," a Moscow-installed official said on August 12.
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