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A military court in Moscow on July 19 sentenced a Ukrainian national, Oleksandr Tsylyk, to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of plotting a terrorist act.
Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev, who took part in Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, told Agenstvo Telegram channel on July 18 that he had obtained political asylum in France after writing a book about his experiences in the Kremlin's war against its neighbor.
A section of the Crimea Bridge was damaged by a deadly explosion on July 17. Moscow said two people were killed and a child was injured in the blast that it blamed on Ukrainian maritime drones. The span serves as a vital rail and road link between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula.
An Su-25 military jet crashed into the Azov Sea in the southwestern region of Krasnodar Krai on July 17 while performing a training flight near the city of Yeisk, officials in Russia's South Military District said, adding that the incident might have been caused by an engine malfunction.
Ukrainian soldiers never stop eyeing the sky in the battle to retake territory held by Russian forces. Ukrainian antiaircraft rockets can stop the incoming kamikaze drones but these often put the defending soldiers at risk.
The Russian government has ordered the closure of the Polish Consulate in Smolensk, a city some 400 kilometers west of Moscow.
Russia's State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on July 13 that bans surgical operations "aimed at changing the sex of a person" and the changing of the gender marker in documents.
Vladyslava and Dmytro were born and grew up in Mariupol, where their family homes were destroyed during the Russian assault on the city. Vladyslava now prizes an antique bottle owned by her grandmother, who died after a Russian attack, while all Dmytro has from his old life is a knife and fork.
Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was officially transferred to the use of Russia's Orthodox Church for a period of 49 years, despite protests from Russia's museum community.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government has long been developing “patriotic” education at all school levels. But over the next two years, that process will move decidedly in the direction of preparing children to serve in the military.
Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said that Ukraine and 11 countries signed a memorandum regarding the training of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets.
During a counteroffensive operation in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian soldiers reclaimed territory that had been occupied by Russia and Moscow-backed separatist forces for nearly a decade. Current Time correspondent Andriy Kuzakov visited the Ukrainian unit on July 4.
Following the bursting of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine, the water level of the Dnieper River has receded to reveal archaeological finds such as a boat that may be as much as 500 years old.
The total number of Russian soldiers killed in the war against Ukraine was at least 47,000 by the end of May, a joint investigation by the Russian media outlets Mediazona and Meduza showed.
Opposition politician and academic Mikhail Lobanov says he was fired from his position as an associate professor at Moscow State University.
When Ukrainian troops liberated the village of Neskuchne in the Donetsk region, they found the area covered in land mines left by retreating Russian forces. After it took them three days to storm a Russian stronghold, a Ukrainian soldier says the counteroffensive is not as easy as people think.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy repeated his warning that Russia is planning "dangerous provocations" at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. In a recent training scenario, emergency crews prepared for radiation decontamination and the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.
Heavy fighting continues in the Bakhmut, Lyman, Avdiyivka, and Maryinka areas in the Donetsk region, the General Staff of Ukraine’s military reported on July 5, adding that there had been 40 combat clashes in the area during the previous 24 hours.
Olya Kolorovo had produced a handmade cookbook, Living Ukrainian Cuisine, but she was killed in a Russian air strike before she was able to put it on sale. Now, Ukrainian volunteers are working to bring her recipes to a wider public.
Russian TV propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov said on his July 2 News of the Week program on state TV that Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group of mercenaries received more than 858 billion rubles ($9.8 billion at current rates) under government contracts.
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