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Celebrities in Kyiv, a businessman in Kharkiv, an interior designer from Crimea...they're all studying Ukrainian amid a growth in interest in learning the language among the country's native Russian speakers.
Dissident Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who once promised to return to Moscow in a U.S.-made Abrams tank, was designated as a foreign agent on April 7 by the Russian Justice Ministry.
Ukrainian assault brigade sappers risk everything to clear the front line of mines laid by Russian forces -- and lay their own. As one sapper told Current Time correspondent Oleksiy Prodayvoda about a recent mission: "I thought I wasn't coming back."
Brutal fighting rages on the streets of Bakhmut as Russian forces continue their assault on the embattled city. At a "stabilization point," Ukrainian medics fight to save the lives of soldiers injured during fighting. They say they treat up to a hundred patients a day, including wounded civilians.
A woman has been detained by Russian police as a suspect in the assassination of a prominent Russian war blogger at a St. Petersburg cafe, while the Kremlin has alleged that the Ukrainian special services may have been involved in the planning of the bombing, which injured 32 people.
Russian human rights organizations Memorial and OVD-Info have called on the EU to prevent the extradition to Russia of a Russian man detained in Belarus after his daughter's anti-war drawing brought attention to his social media posts against the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
More than 20 Ukrainian doctors and nurses have found work at Riga’s First Hospital in Latvia. After fleeing Russia's invasion at home, they have helped Latvia's health-care sector, despite language challenges. Latvia was facing a shortage of doctors and nurses until the Ukrainians arrived.
A self-exiled former speechwriter of Putin, Abbas Gallyamov, whose name appeared in Russia's online registry of wanted persons last week, is suspected of discrediting Russia's armed forces, a charge Russian authorities have been using to stifle any criticism of Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Ukrainian artillery targets Russian armored guns at a range of 28 kilometers in the battle for Bakhmut. Using a captured self-propelled cannon, the crew is also trying to destroy Russian command posts. They've seen a slowdown in the frequency of attacks but intense fighting continues for the city.
A court in Ukraine has sentenced a Russian soldier to 12 years in prison on a charge of violating of the laws of war, the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General's Office said on March 30.
A Russian man sentenced to two years in prison after his daughter's anti-war drawing brought attention to his social media posts against the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been detained in Belarus after escaping house arrest in Russia just before sentencing.
Before Russia's war in Ukraine, Olena Avilova's son, Andriy, worked in restaurants and cafes. He dreamed of opening a cafe of his own but died fighting in Kharkiv. Now his mother has brought his dream to life.
The new constitution that Uzbeks will vote on next month would give leader Shavkat Mirziyoev a path to remain in power until 2040, but the state machine is choosing to ignore those changes and highlight other ones.
Lyudmyla Subotina’s son Andriy was among the Ukrainian soldiers killed in the defense of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol last March. Two days before he died, he had married a fellow soldier who was taken prisoner by Russia. Subotina has been on a campaign get her widowed daughter-in-law freed.
The Save Ukraine Foundation has brought 17 Ukrainian children home who had been taken by Russian authorities to annexed Crimea. Their parents had been persuaded by occupying forces in the Kherson region to send their children to a summer camp in Crimea to escape the war.
Ukrainian soldiers have been honing their skills to shoot down Iranian-made drones with machine guns. Russian forces have been using the drones to launch attacks across Ukraine. The Ukrainian military says it is having success gunning down the drones, even as Russia continues to change tactics.
The Russian Interior Ministry has added to its wanted list a self-exiled former speechwriter of Vladimir Putin, Abbas Gallyamov, known for his analyses of political and social developments in Russia and the Kremlin's ongoing invasion of Ukraine and interviews he has given to multiple media outlets.
Residents who have remained in the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiyivka are now deciding to move somewhere safer as danger grows. The badly battered municipality has seen growing Russian artillery shelling as the enemy makes small gains in areas around Avdiyivka.
Local volunteer Yevhen Tkachov risks his life in Ukraine's Donetsk region to bring water to frontline communities under attack by Russian forces. He says he supplies drinking water to about 100 residents in Chasiv Yar, a town near the besieged city of Bakhmut.
A Russian rights watchdog has cited the country's Federal Security Service as saying that the father and brother of self-exiled activist Arshak Makichyan have been barred from entering Russia for 50 years.
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