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A court in Kyiv has sentenced the former head of the regional council in the southern region of Kherson, Vladyslav Manher, and a former aide to a regional lawmaker, Oleksiy Levin, to 10 years in prison each in the high-profile case of a deadly attack on anti-corruption activist Kateryna Handzyuk.
Our reporters captured events in Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don amid an armed rebellion by the Wagner mercenary group that rocked Russia on June 24. The group launched a military column toward Moscow before its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced he was calling it off to "avoid bloodshed."
Concert organizers in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan have canceled two Russian singers' performances -- one who opposes Russia’s war in Ukraine and another who supports it.
A court in the Russian city of Kostroma on June 22 sentenced in absentia the former coordinator of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team in the city.
A court in Russia’s southwestern city of Taganrog has sentenced a Jehovah's Witness to seven years in prison amid a crackdown on the religious group.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov provided few details about Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive but stressed the importance of the military support Kyiv is receiving from European countries and his hopes to celebrate his 58th birthday next year in Crimea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons has been delivered to Belarus.
The flooding of the Dnieper River caused by the breach of the Kakhovka dam has left many riverside villages without food and drinking water. Ukrainian volunteers must brave Russian drones and artillery fire to make deliveries.
The trial of 22 Ukrainian members of the Azov Battalion, who are accused of terrorist activities against Russia, began on June 15 in a military court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
A Russian cruise missile attack killed at least three people and injured 13 others in Odesa. The strike destroyed civilian infrastructure, including a residential complex and a food warehouse. The onslaught comes as Russian forces have stepped up aerial assaults across Ukraine in recent weeks.
A marathon held by several independent media outlets in Russia on June 12 to raise funds to support political prisoners and Russian citizens who openly condemn Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine has raised 34.5 million rubles ($415,000), organizers said.
A Ukrainian unit fighting near Bakhmut calls their improvised combat vehicle the "Nightmaremobile." Soldiers from Ukraine's 56th Motorized Brigade have added four Grad launching tubes to the truck so it can fire 122mm rockets. They were using the pickup to shell Russian forces in the Donetsk region.
Russian tourists are expected to skip Crimea for the second year in a row as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine takes its toll on the Black Sea peninsula’s economy.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, said he will not obey a new Russian Defense Ministry decree obliging all volunteer formations to sign a contract directly with the ministry in his latest spat with the nation’s military leadership.
Joint investigating by Mediazona and the BBC's Russian service has recently confirmed more than 1,200 newly identified Russian troop deaths in Ukraine, putting the number of Russians killed and identified through open sources so far in the 15-month invasion at 25,218.
The video has been seen all around the world: a Ukrainian military drone drops bottled water to a family stranded by floodwaters after the breach of a dam in Russian-occupied territory. Now, the mom and her son have spoken to Current Time about how Russian forces left them to their fate.
Ukrainian troops attacked enemy positions with a captured Russian tank and retook land north of Bakhmut. The gains by Ukrainian forces come after Russia's Wagner mercenary group said it took control of the city and was handing it over to regular Russian forces.
Rescue teams are working to save thousands of people trapped by flooding caused by the rupture of a major dam in Ukraine's Kherson region. Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov spoke to residents who remain in their homes for now, and was forced to run for cover as shelling was heard nearby.
Flooding in the area under Russian occupation on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River is "10 times" worse than in Ukrainian-controlled areas, according to a Ukrainian official in the region. Dramatic footage shows civilians in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky being helped by a Ukrainian drone.
Boat after boat of exhausted and stressed civilians arrived in the flooded streets of Kherson on June 7. Some of the people had made it here from Russian-occupied areas on the east bank of the Dnieper River.
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