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On the third anniversary of a disputed presidential vote in Belarus, opposition activists demanded justice for protesters jailed and beaten in a brutal crackdown. Unprecedented demonstrations erupted after Alyaksandr Lukashenka declared victory in an election widely seen as rigged.
The director of the Russian soccer club Dinamo Moscow, Pavel Pivovarov, said on August 10 that Norwegian player Mathias Normann had terminated his contract with Russian clubs over recent drone attacks in Moscow.
A Russian strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya killed at least one person and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian officials said on August 10, a day of heavy fighting across the front line that prompted the mandatory evacuation of dozens of settlements in an embattled eastern region.
A Ukrainian firm has developed low-cost boots that can help protect mine-clearance teams from injury. Owner Ihor Yefimenko says the boots, which cost $400 and are 3D-printed, are significantly cheaper than Western imports.
A court in Russian Urals city of Yekaterinburg on August 9 fined a local branch of the Memorial human rights group 300,000 rubles ($3,110) for allegedly discrediting Russia's armed forces involved in Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
Local officials in Russia say an explosion at an optical plant in the city of Sergiyev Posad, about 70 kilometers outside Moscow, killed one person and injured at least 43 people on August 9.
A Russian attack on a residential area of the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya killed two people and injured seven, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on August 9 as the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive operations continued along the front line.
Authorities in Italy have halted an investment program for Russian and Belarusian citizens that offered residency permits in exchange for large investments.
Kyiv has accused the Kremlin of deliberately targeting rescue workers in missile strikes on residential buildings in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in two attacks on August 7. Rescuers were responding to the first strike when another followed.
Our reporter made contact with a Wagner mercenary via a dating app. She did not reveal that she was a journalist. The fighter spoke about the recent Wagner mutiny in Russia, being on "vacation" in Belarus, and "trophy cars" stolen in Ukraine.
Russia has addded Norway to its list of countries that have committed "unfriendly" acts against Russian diplomatic and consular missions abroad.
Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against Mikhail Svetov, the leader of the Libertarian Party of Russia, for allegedly rehabilitating Nazism.
The West Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office said on August 2 that a seaplane crashed in the region of Krasnoyarsk, killing both people on board.
Ukrainian military medic Mykola Iliychuk took his final medical exams online because he was already serving on the front line of Russia's war on his country. Now, he's driving an armored ambulance and conducting triage among Ukrainian casualties.
The cruise ship Astoria Grande, with some 800 mostly Russian passengers on board, was met with fresh protests as it arrived in the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi early on July 31 on its way back from Istanbul.
Czech media reports say investigators have frozen bank accounts and impounded the property of Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov and his son Feliks in Prague and Karlovy Vary.
Russian children's commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova has said that more than 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken from Ukraine to Russia since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Motherland Monument soars above Kyiv, still sporting Soviet icons, but plans are afoot to replace them with symbols representing Ukraine. What do the locals make of it?
Children are not only being taken from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia, but also to Belarus. The country's leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, has claimed "they don't want to leave." But exiled Belarusian opposition politicians and the Ukrainian authorities say the children were abducted.
Russia's Defense Ministry said on July 28 that it had thwarted an attack by a drone "on objectives in the Moscow region" overnight.
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