Yegor Maksimov is a journalist with Current Time. He previously worked for the private Russian television and radio stations Dozhd and Match.TV as well as the Open Russia NGO.
Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the exiled leader of the democratic opposition in Belarus, says her country's fate is linked to the outcome of the war that Russia has launched against Ukraine.
More than 60 percent of the towns in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhya region are controlled by the Russian military. But the Ukrainian military governor of the region says the front lines are holding even as fighting has grown more intense in recent days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to recreate the Soviet Union, an aspiration that also threatens Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s former prime minister said.
