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Volunteers in eastern Ukraine risk their lives to rescue abandoned pets from frontline towns and villages. The animals that the team catches are often in states of extreme distress after being left behind by fleeing or missing owners.
Ukraine has ramped up domestic drone production to levels where they are now achieving parity with Russia in the skies, officials claim. RFE/RL saw the drones being assembled and tested.
India's NDTV television on September 12 quoted the country's Foreign Ministry as saying that 45 Indian nationals had been discharged from the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine after they were tricked into enlisting.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on September 12 concluded a European tour in Poland, where he heard more appeals for a change in Washington's policy restricting the use of Western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia.
The French Embassy in Azerbaijan on September 12 condemned the imprisonment in the South Caucasus nation of French citizen Theo Clerk over the painting of graffiti on metro trains in Baku. T
The Vyasna human rights center said on September 11 that political prisoner Andrey Buday, who is serving a 15-year prison term on terrorism charges that he and his supporters reject, has been charged with "blatantly disobeying prison guards' orders."
Miroslava Reginskaya, the wife of imprisoned Russian nationalist Igor Girkin (aka Strelkov), has rejected reports saying her husband was released and allowed to join the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
A Russian military court on September 11 sentenced former Russian opposition lawmaker Ilya Ponomaryov, who opposed the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, to 10 years in prison on charges of justifying terrorism and spreading false information about Russia's military.
A freight train derailed in Russia’s Belgorod region, near the border with Ukraine, due to what the rail operator said was an “interference in operations.”
Foreign nationals serving terms in Russian prisons have been asked to write requests to serve the remainder of their terms in their homeland following two recent hostage-taking crises in Russian penitentiaries, IStories said on September 10.
The Ukrainian authorities have introduced a curfew and shut down rail connections in the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region. Russian forces are now just kilometers away. An estimated 26,000 residents remain.
Incumbents and other loyalists of President Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party were expected to coast to victory in most of the 21 regional governorships and other local voting that wrapped up in Russian elections that rights groups and independent experts agree lack genuine competition.
The Russian Justice Ministry on September 6 added Zalina Marshenkulova, a feminist activist in exile, to its list of "foreign agents."
A court in the Polish capital has issued arrests warrants for three Belarusian men over their roles in the forced landing in Minsk of a commercial flight carrying then-dissident blogger Raman Pratasevich in 2021.
Latvia’s parliament is debating a draft law that allows authorities to confiscate vehicles with Belarussian license plates in the Latvian territory.
A Moscow court on September 5 sent three officers of a notorious immigration center in Sakharovo near Moscow to pretrial detention for at least two months on corruption charges.
Grieving relatives gathered outside a morgue in the Ukrainian city of Poltava on September 4 to try to identify the victims of a Russian air strike the previous day. More than 50 people were reported killed and over 270 wounded in the attack on a military training facility.
Russian contract soldier Kamil Kasimov, who fled Russia for Kazakhstan last year to avoid being sent to the war in Ukraine, has been sentenced to six years in prison in Russia, the 72.ru website quoted his friends as saying on September 3.
Two Russian missiles struck a military training facility in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava on September 3, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200. Military observers questioned why a large number of people were gathered at the site, making them vulnerable to a single attack.
There is no war fatigue in Russia yet because Putin and the government-controlled media have been convincing society that "there is no war," exiled Kremlin opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky says, adding that once Putin "creates the feeling that there is a war, the clock will start ticking" for him.
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