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Some Russians are keeping military matters in mind this holiday season, decorating their Christmas trees with ornamental tanks, bomber planes, and soldiers. But not every consumer in Moscow cares to honor Russian soldiers this way -- in fact, some find the idea "very crude." (SOTA Vision)
Several Russian artists who have been labeled foreign agents or jailed for their performances appeared together at a concert in Vilnius. Singer Naoko had been arrested in October for playing banned anti-war songs by exiled artists Noize MC and Monetochka, who she joined on stage for the first time.
In the Kyiv region, the volunteer civilian defense force helps defend Ukrainian territory. A volunteer named Yulia, part of a predominantly female unit nicknamed the Bucha Witches, explained why she felt drawn to join the defense force, crediting her 10-year-old daughter with motivating her.
As fighting around Pokrovsk continues, Russian forces are targeting Ukrainian logistics with drones in an effort to cut supply routes. A Current Time crew witnessed a drone being shot down and visited a Ukrainian UAV control center.
Students in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region are being taught in a new network of reinforced underground schools. The facilities in the frontline region are designed to protect students from missile strikes, air raids, and constant shelling.
A day after 123 Belarusian political prisoners were released, several freed prisoners spoke to the press from an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Viktar Babaryka and Maryya Kalesnikava, both prominent figures in the 2020 opposition movement, said they had made the right decision to take a stand.
Dozens of Belarusians imprisoned for their political activity were freed on December 13 as US officials announced plans to ease sanctions on Minsk. The freed prisoners included Ales Byalyatski, a human rights defender and Nobel laureate, and Maryya Kalesnikava, a prominent opposition leader.
Amid steps to expand control over online communications, the Russian government has unveiled a new package of digital security measures that would sharply restrict international phone calls being made to people inside the country.
A court in Russian-controlled Ukraine sentenced four Russian soldiers for the death last year of Russell Bentley, a Texas man who as the "Donbas Cowboy" gained notoriety for joining Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine.
Earlier this year, displaced people from eastern Ukraine arrived in Mezhova, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, to take refuge from the fighting. Now Russian air strikes are battering the town as a few holdouts remain without electricity and a stalwart journalist keeps publishing the local newspaper.
The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service has reportedly confirmed that journalist Nika Novak remains in Penal Colony No. 11 in Irkutsk, despite earlier claims by her lawyer that she had disappeared from the facility.
Russian forces are pushing closer to Pokrovske, a strategic village between Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya. With the front line approaching, Ukrainian police are carrying out mandatory evacuations, warning residents of constant shelling and growing danger.
Former RFE/RL contributor Nika Novak, who was sentenced to prison last year by a Russian court for carrying out her professional duties, has disappeared from a Siberian correctional colony, her lawyer said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris for talks with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, kicking off another week of intense diplomacy aimed at ending nearly four years of fighting in Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine's military said it hit a Russian oil terminal in the Black Sea port city of Novorossiisk on November 14. Port infrastructure was also damaged and oil exports were temporarily suspended, according to industry sources.
Russian air strikes pounded Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine overnight, killing several people and wounding dozens of others -- including a pregnant woman -- as Moscow continues to hit civilian infrastructure.
A court in the Russian city of St. Petersburg has sentenced members of the anti-war musical group Stoptime to another 13 days in jail, local media reported on November 11.
Kyiv says Pokrovsk remains a priority for the Kremlin as Russian forces claim to have captured dozens of buildings in house-to-house fighting for Ukraine's key eastern stronghold.
Russia claims it has captured more than 60 buildings in Pokrovsk as house-to-house fighting is reportedly raging in the strategic frontline city. Kyiv has acknowledged that the situation has become difficult in recent days but says its troops are still fighting there and denies they are surrounded.
When 21-year-old Daniil Mukhametov was summoned to report for service in the Russian military, he chose a path to safety that involved a leap into the dark from a moving train and a manhunt aiming to track him down. Now in Finland, he fears he could be sent back to Russia.
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