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A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has sentenced members of the anti-war musical group Stoptime to another 13 days in jail, local media reported on November 11.
Kyiv says Pokrovsk remains a priority for the Kremlin as Russian forces claim to have captured dozens of buildings in house-to-house fighting for Ukraine's key eastern stronghold.
Russia claims it has captured more than 60 buildings in Pokrovsk as house-to-house fighting is reportedly raging in the strategic frontline city. Kyiv has acknowledged that the situation has become difficult in recent days but says its troops are still fighting there and denies they are surrounded.
When 21-year-old Daniil Mukhametov was summoned to report for service in the Russian military, he chose a path to safety that involved a leap into the dark from a moving train and a manhunt aiming to track him down. Now in Finland, he fears he could be sent back to Russia.
In St. Petersburg, the organizer of the Necrocomicon festival of mysticism and fantasy is being investigated on forgery charges. His festival was recently shut down after Orthodox activists accused its organizers of "satanism."
Russian overnight deadly missile and drone strikes on Ukraine continue as Kyiv says it has deployed special forces to defend Pokrovsk, a key city in the east.
Russia has targeted the electricity infrastructure across Ukraine, forcing authorities to impose regular power cuts. In Chernihiv, residents arrange their lives around the blackouts, cooking meals in advance, charging battery-powered lights, and cutting back on showers when the water supply is down.
Russian forces are pushing deeper into Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. Amid relentless assaults and waves of drone attacks, Ukrainian troops fight to hold the line and protect key supply routes along the front.
The Ukrainian military is facing a manpower crisis, exacerbated by draft dodgers and deserters trying to leave the country. On the border with Romania, men trying to flee conscription pay smugglers to help them leave illegally, driving local guards to step up patrols using drones for surveillance.
At least two people were killed and several were injured in Kyiv overnight after a wave of Russian ballistic missiles triggered powerful explosions and fires across the Ukrainian capital, city military authorities said on October 25.
Ukrainian soldiers are entrenched near the boundaries of the Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions as Russian forces to the east make slow gains. The soldiers told Current Time they expect more Russian troops on the ground, while civilians are fleeing nearby villages under the threat of drone attack.
A Russian drone has hit a passenger train, killing a 71-year-old man and injuring dozens of others, including children, in the latest strike against a civilian target in the Kremlin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Current Time correspondent Borys Sachalko joined Ukrainian volunteers who are helping local residents evacuate the frontline area near Kupyansk, a key defensive position that is being heavily targeted by Russian forces. Many of the evacuation requests come from concerned relatives.
Power lines supplying the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in a Russian-occupied part of Ukraine have been cut off for over a week. That means that the plant, which is not currently generating its own power, is relying on diesel generators to keep its nuclear reactors cool.
After a Russian air strike in Kyiv, Mykola Yakimenko was trapped under rubble for hours before rescue workers freed him. As attacks on civilian sites continue with terrifying frequency, medics are offering safety advice meant to give Ukrainians the best odds of surviving a similar disaster.
Mykola Yakimenko was rescued from under fallen debris after a Russian missile hit his apartment building in Kyiv. The threat of collapsing buildings is so common in war-torn Ukraine that rescuers and medics now offer online advice for civilians caught in similar situations.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, has publicly accused President Vladimir Putin and Russian security services of responsibility for her husband’s death, claiming he was deliberately poisoned while serving his prison sentence in the Arctic colony of Harp
Ukrainian troops continue to hold defensive positions in the embattled city of Kostyantynivka, a critical stronghold in the Donetsk region, despite ongoing Russian bombardments and drone attacks.
Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov joined a frontline Ukrainian unit patrolling the war-torn streets of Kostyantynivka as Russian forces advance on the city. The area remains a key Ukrainian stronghold in the Donetsk region. Hundreds have fled in recent weeks as Russian forces close in.
Current Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda and cameraman Mykola Ryzhchenko spent a day with a Ukrainian reconnaissance team on the front line in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region. They watched the team launch a Ukrainian-made Furia surveillance drone to locate Russian positions for attack.
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