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Our reporters recorded this exclusive footage in Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have been carrying out massive attacks for months. In early July, Ukrainian forces were pushed out of the east of the city, but fighting there continues.
In late June, drone footage appeared showing a soldier in Ukraine shooting a wounded comrade in the head. Russian state television and other pro-Kremlin media claimed the shooter was a Ukrainian “fascist.” But RFE/RL’s investigation concluded the soldiers in the video were Russians.
A Moscow court on July 18 sentenced U.S. citizen Michale Travis Leake to 13 years in prison on drug charges.
In June, drone footage emerged showing a soldier in Ukraine shooting a wounded comrade in the head and running off. Russian state TV and other pro-Kremlin media claimed the shooter was a Ukrainian "fascist." But an RFE/RL investigation found the soldiers in the video were almost certainly Russians.
The U.S. Justice Department said on July 17 that a 52-year-old Russian man, Maksim Marchenko, was sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling large quantities of American-made, military-grade microelectronics to Russia.
Russian poet Artyom Kamardin, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in December for publicly reciting verses condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has rejected an offer to join Russian armed forces invading Ukraine, his supporters said.
Ukrainian policemen urge locals to evacuate Lyptsi, a war-torn village in the country's Kharkiv region some 5 kilometers from the border with Russia. One local man has chosen to stay in the area and is feeding abandoned dogs that live among the ruins of the destroyed village.
Ten years after a Malaysian airliner was blown out of the sky over Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, the mother of one of the victims says she still has questions. A Dutch court ruled that Russian intelligence worked with a Ukrainian separatist leader to shoot down flight MH17.
A Moscow court on July 16 sentenced self-exiled former lawyer Mark Feigin to 11 years in prison in absentia on a charge of distributing "false" information about Russia's military.
Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko announced a state of emergency in that southern Russian port city due to forest fires engulfing the outskirts of several villages and threatening others in the Krasnodar region.
Russia's Justice Ministry has added blogger Daria Bogdanova and the VChK-OGPU (Russian Crime project) Telegram channel to its "foreign agents" register.
Russia's financial watchdog, Rosfinmonitoring, on July 11 added Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Aleksei Navalny, to its registry of "terrorists and extremists."
The Central Securities Depository of Kazakhstan said on July 11 that it had ordered brokers and management companies to divest Russian securities from their holdings by August 1.
The Moscow City Court on July 11 rejected an appeal filed by veteran rights activist Oleg Orlov against his imprisonment.
After almost a week of being denied access, a lawyer for imprisoned opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza was finally allowed to see his client in a prison hospital in Siberia amid concerns over the Kremlin critic's safety and health.
The Second Western District Military Court in Moscow on July 9 sentenced a shoemaker, Nikolai Kolin for sending 5,000 rubles ($57) to the so-called Russian Volunteers' Corps (RDK) that has fought alongside Ukraine's armed forces against occupying Russian troops.
Media reports in Russia said on July 9 that a court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg sentenced five Tajik men to lengthy prison terms on terrorism charges.
Russia's Justice Ministry has added two more independent journalists -- Olesya Gerasimenko and Sergei Yezhov -- to its "foreign agent" list.
Friends and relatives attended a funeral near Kyiv on July 5 for Aidos Sadyqov, a Kazakh opposition activist and journalist. Sadyqov was shot while sitting next to his wife in their car on June 18 near their home in the Ukrainian capital, where they both lived in exile.
Kazakh activist Abzal Dostiyarov was summoned by police on July 4 amid pressure being applied on rights activists during the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting in Astana.
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