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Several explosions were heard in an area close to a thermal power plant in the city of Sevastopol in Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimea. The blasts occurred while rescue teams were cleaning up debris caused by a missile attack on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet earlier in the day.
Russian emergency officials said on September 21 that seven people, including two rescue workers, were killed after an explosion caused by a gas leak ripped through a nine-story apartment block in the city of Balashikha near Moscow a day earlier.
Capitalizing on "any gaps in the enemy's defense," Ukrainian troops said on September 12 they were slowly but steadily reclaiming ground in their counteroffensive to Russia's invasion. The cost is high, they explain, because Russian artillery usually razes retaken villages to the ground.
International monitoring organizations estimate thousands of Ukrainians have been illegally held prisoner and deported by Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale attack on Ukraine in February 2022. Their families fight for scraps of information while witnesses recount civilian arrests.
The head of Russia's legendary Bolshoi Ballet has acknowledged removing from the repertoire performances and artists linked to opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has thanked Ukraine's Security Service and naval forces for their role in what he called the destruction of a Russian air-defense system in occupied Crimea.
Two Russian military vessels have been damaged in an apparent large-scale Ukrainian strike on a ship-repair base in Russian-occupied Crimea as Kyiv reported another barrage of Russian drones had struck port infrastructure in the Odesa region.
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says former lawmaker Serhiy Polishchuk, who is currently out the country, is suspected of high treason for his appearances on Russian television where he "denied the existence of Ukraine" while allegedly taking money from Russian security authorities.
Russian prison inmates who were pardoned in order to fight with the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine are now reportedly being recruited into Russia's National Guard.
Lithuania says the number of Belarusian nationals seeking so-called foreigners' passports is likely to rise following a consular clampdown by Minsk but that Belarusians who fled the regime and have the proper documents can receive the alternative Lithuanian travel document in as little as five days.
Ukrainian soldier Artem Kholodkevych says he had no interest in taking a safe desk job far from the front after losing his leg to a Russian mine. After five months of walking with a prosthetic limb, he can move around the defensive trenches his fellow soldiers live in with ease.
An online campaign has been launched in Kazakhstan calling for the cancellation of shows by Azamat Musagaliyev, a prominent Russian comic of Kazakh origin, over his recent performance in Ukraine's Russian-controlled Donetsk region.
A statue of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police, Cheka, was unveiled in front of the headquarters of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) in Moscow on September 11.
The 60-day detention handed to Ukrainian tycoon Ihor Kolomoyskiy is the highest-profile jailing in the current graft crackdown and comes weeks before a crucial U.S. congressional vote on whether to approve another round of massive aid to the embattled country.
A court in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg fined the Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper 245,000 rubles (about $2,500) for "discrediting" the Russian Army.
British American Tobacco announced that it has agreed to sell its businesses in Belarus and Russia in the wake of the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian military said 34 combat clashes took place on the front line during the day on September 7 and that the situation in the east and south of Ukraine "remains difficult."
With the danger of ongoing Russian attacks, some students in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv started the academic year with classes located in metro stations. Following Russia's full-scale invasion, many Ukrainian schools switched to online learning.
Medical volunteers continue to travel to villages in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region to bring care to civilians near the front line. Current Time's Boris Sachalko reports.
Twice a week, Ukrainian veterans who have lost limbs in Russia's war on the country gather for soccer games on Kyiv fields. As they practice using their bodies in new ways, they joke, work out, and share the communal experience of healing and returning to some sense of normalcy.
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