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More than 40 people were killed during the Russian occupation of Andriyivka, near Kyiv, which has now been liberated by the Ukrainian Army. Locals recall a man being summarily shot after photos of Russian military vehicles were found on his phone.
Latvian authorities say they detained a Belarusian citizen on an espionage charge in mid-February, saying that he allegedly collected information on Latvia's military facilities for Belarusian intelligence.
Nearly 6,000 orphans have been evacuated from the war zone in Ukraine. According to Ukrainian law, they can't be adopted during the war. Current Time's Yuliia Zhukova and Serhii Syvko visited one of the shelters for evacuated orphans in the village of Yaremche in Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region.
A Current Time correspondent asked people on the streets of Moscow and Arkhangelsk what Russia had achieved after six weeks of war in Ukraine. Most repeated the Kremlin line, as they hear it on Russian media, but a few offered radically different answers.
YouTube has blocked Duma TV, which broadcasts from Russia's lower house of parliament, drawing an angry response from officials who said the world's most popular streaming service could face restrictions in response.
After Russian forces withdrew from areas around Kyiv, Ukrainians have begun returning to their homes in the capital and its suburbs. The numbers were so huge that drivers spent hours in traffic jams.
A court in Argentina has handed lengthy prison terms to two Russian-born men convicted in an operation that uncovered almost 400 kilograms of cocaine on the premises of the Russian Embassy in Argentina in December 2016.
Alona Zahreba made a video diary of life in the besieged Ukrainian port, showing how they gathered snow when water was cut off and smoke rising from nearby explosions. She spoke to Current Time about what life was like in Mariupol, and how she and her family escaped.
People questioned across Russia have expressed mixed reactions to allegations that Russian forces committed war crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says if he were able to address the Russian people about the war in Ukraine, he would ask them how the war is answering any of their needs.
Speaking to Current Time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russian people have no access to the facts about the invasion of Ukraine, calling the war a distraction from urgent global problems including COVID-19 and economic recovery.
Roman and Leonid Butusin were born in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East, but both died fighting for the Ukrainian Army against Russian invaders. At their funeral, people knelt on the street in a mark of respect. "They were real Ukrainians," said one mourner.
Memorial, one of Russia's most respected human rights groups, says a court has rejected its appeal of a ruling that would have forced the organization to close for allegedly violating the controversial "foreign agent" law.
Solomia Fedishin is drying her husband's freshly laundered Ukrainian Army uniform. The 19-year-old is trying to cope after his death in a Russian air strike. She needs to be strong, she says, for the son that she will soon give birth to -- and bring up as a widow.
It's called the Sweet Home neighborhood -- but its streets are now burned out, the windows in the buildings are shattered. Current Time reporter Roman Sukhan visited the area during a tour of Irpin, near Kyiv, which has now been liberated from Russian forces.
Prosecutors are seeking correctional labor for four former editors of the Doxa student magazine for allegedly engaging minors in activities that might be "dangerous" because of a video questioning teachers for discouraging students from attending rallies for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
South Korean electronics giant LG has deleted applications for Current Time in Russia and Belarus from its smart TVs, saying it was following a directive by the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor.
A schoolteacher. A TV news editor. A performance artist. National guardsmen. These are some of the Russians who are protesting the war in Ukraine -- or refusing to fight in it.
Russia has been sustaining "incredible" losses since the start of its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. State Department official says, putting the figure at more than 10,000 killed since the attack was launched just over a month ago.
In an interview with Current Time on March 29, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said Russia's negotiating position with Ukraine in Istanbul has been: "Capitulate and then maybe we'll talk."
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