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A Kyiv church has installed heat pumps and a hospital in Odesa has built a solar panel station as groups across Ukraine look to alternative energy sources in the face of continued Russian attacks on Ukraine's infrastructure. Analysts say Ukraine can expect more long power cuts this winter.
More than a dozen wounded Russian contract soldiers who had fought in Ukraine reportedly fled a military unit near the city of Novosibirsk in southern Siberia after they were told they were being sent back to the battlefield despite their injuries.
Russia’s State Duma passed a bill on November 12 in its second and third readings that would ban “childfree propaganda,” marking the government’s latest move to regulate social discourse while pushing President Vladimir Putin's family values agenda.
A 68-year-old Russian pediatrician has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges related to the dissemination of so-called fake news about the Russian military after a patient's mother accused her of making antiwar comments made during an appointment.
A Moscow court has issued an arrest warrant for International Criminal Court (ICC) Judge Haykel Ben Mahfoudh on a charge of "illegal incarceration."
Natalya is one of only 4,000 remaining residents in Lyman in eastern Ukraine. She feeds the birds every day and says they will being peace. Russian forces have recently ramped up their attacks on the town.
Flying at night to avoid detection, drones are often the only way to get water, food, and ammunition to frontline Ukrainian troops. Current Time filmed with the 68th Jaeger Brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Pokrovsk area of Ukraine's Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War reported that the bodies of 563 servicemen have been returned to Ukraine, of whom 320 were killed in Donetsk, 89 in Bakhmut, and another 154 had been in morgues on Russian territory.
More than 40 countries from Europe and beyond have met in Budapest for a summit of the European Political Community summit. Donald Trump's return to the White House and the possible knock-on effects on the war in Ukraine topped the agenda, as RFE/RL's Olena Abramovych reports.
Sergei Markelov, a Russian journalist living in the United States, said he is wanted in Russia, where a criminal case has been opened against him.
Ukrainian soldiers have diverse opinions on Donald Trump's election as U.S. president. "We need to think how to win the war, not what Trump will do," said a fighter stoically, while his fellow in arms hoped the president-elect would "do something good for Ukraine."
State-aligned Russian media celebrated Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election -- and the political split in U.S. society -- before official results were declared. But a Kremlin spokesman said he knew of no plans by Russian President Vladimir Putin to congratulate Trump.
The Pentagon announced a $425 million package of fresh security assistance to Ukraine under the presidential "drawdown authority" on November 1, its 69th tranche of defense equipment since late 2021.
The Finnish Prosecutor-General's Office has charged Voislav Torden, also known as Yan Petrovsky, a Russian ultranationalist and former commander of the Rusich sabotage group, with war crimes committed in Ukraine in 2014.
Ilya Yashin, a Kremlin opponent who was exchanged in a historic prisoner swap between Russia and the West, says he is working with colleagues -- including fellow activists Yulia Navalnaya and Vladimir Kara-Murza -- to unite Russians abroad with the goal of removing President Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has warned that Russia intends to deploy troops from North Korea in combat areas as early as October 27. He also called for "tangible" international pressure on the two countries to get them to respect UN legislation.
Some 80 percent of the high-rise residential buildings were damaged in Izyum in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region during the Russian occupation of the city between April and September 2022.
Russia's State Duma, the lower house of parliament, has approved a strategic partnership treaty with North Korea that allows for "military and other assistance" from one country to the other.
Ukraine is evacuating the remaining residents of Kurakhove in the country's Donetsk region. Current Time's Borys Sachalko traveled with a police officer as he evacuated a local woman, driving at 150 kilometers per hour to avoid Russian kamikaze drones.
Roman Shklover, a 34-year-old activist from the Russian Diaspora of Armenia (RDA), was detained in Yerevan on the central Republic Square on October 21, the RDA said in a statement.
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