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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Vagner Group, a shadowy Russian military company, has announced the funding and creation of “militia training centers” in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions.
Russian stand-up comics Ariana Lolayeva and Ilya Ovechkin have gone into exile in Georgia. They say their sets, which include mockery of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other political satire, could land them in jail if they tried to perform in Russia.
A Russian IT developer has been hiding in a forest for a month to avoid mobilization. Not willing to leave Russia, but also not wanting to go to war, he has spent the last month equipping a tent, and says he has maintained a normal work schedule with his employer.
Soldiers with the Ukrainian Army's 93rd Kholodny Yar Mechanized Brigade say they're being attacked by mercenaries from the Vagner Group -- a Kremlin-backed militia.
Residents of the Ukrainian capital coped with disruptions to water and electricity supplies on October 31 following Russian missile strikes on energy facilities.
Soso Glonti, a fitness coach with Russian and Georgian citizenship, left Moscow to head for Kyiv on the first day of the war. There, he burned his Russian passport and joined the Ukrainian forces.
A local official told Russian conscripts, "You are not cannon fodder," in a video published online recently. The men responded by angrily shouting that, actually, that's exactly what they are.
Another four Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handed prison terms on extremism charges in Russia amid an ongoing crackdown on the religious group, which has been banned in Russia since 2017.
Speaking to Current Time in Riga on October 22, Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks said Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot change the course of war in Ukraine by dropping nuclear bombs.
American fast-food restaurant chain KFC is transferring its Russian business to a local operator, and the Spanish fashion retailer that owns the chain Zara will sell its business in the country, the two multinationals said on October 25.
Amid the ruins of two Ukrainian towns recently recaptured from Russian forces, the local population is cold and traumatized.
Dogs, cats, and even goats have been evacuated from combat zones in Ukraine, including a dog called Crimea that was the sole survivor of a Russian missile attack on a family home in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
Prague and other Czech cities are donating old trams and buses to war-torn Ukraine where public transit systems across the country have been damaged by Russian bombing.
With no central heating, it's hardly luxurious accommodation, but for Anna Serdyuk, her mother, two children, and a niece, it's given them a chance to get settled after fleeing Ukraine.
Oksana Leontyeva was killed on October 10 after a Russian rocket hit her car in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. She was traveling to the hospital where she worked as a cancer doctor after having dropped off her 5-year-old son, Hrysha, at his kindergarten.
Valentina is from Siberia, but she welcomed Ukrainian troops as liberators when they recaptured the village where she lives in southern Ukraine with bowls of hot borscht.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians have fled their country since President Vladimir Putin announced a "partial" mobilization on September 21. We asked men who have crossed the borders into Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan what they think about the war in Ukraine.
A court in Belarus's eastern region of Mahilyou has sentenced a man to 11 years in prison on charges of joining a group involved in damaging railways to disrupt the supply of Russian arms and troops to Ukraine.
In Volgograd, Russia, the mother of 23-year-old Stanislav Kudryashov says her son was mobilized despite the fact that he has bronchial asthma, a mitral valve prolapse, and vision problems that can cause temporary blindness.
According to Ukraine's Health Ministry, more than 90 percent of Ukrainians have one or more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the ongoing war. It's estimated that only three in every 100 Ukrainians with PTSD are receiving support.
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