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The Russian military wants to make it harder for conscripts to secure medical exemptions from military service, including those diagnosed with syphilis and severe mental disorders. An antiwar group says the plan would “significantly worsen the situation of both military personnel and conscripts."
Ukraine has marked six months since it launched an incursion into the Russian region of Kursk that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said "brought the war home for Russians” and could serve as a bargaining chip in any future peace negotiations.
Cameraman Ivan Lyubish-Kirdey was in a coma for a moth after his hotel in Kramatorsk was hit by a Russian missile, breathing only with the help of a respirator. But now he can't wait to pick up his gear and get back to the front.
The Polish Prosecutor-General's Office has launched an investigation into Prime Minister Donald Tusk after the head of the country's Constitutional Tribunal accused him and other senior ruling party officials of operating as an “organized criminal group” in order to mount a “coup d’etat.”
Homeless residents of Russian-occupied Mariupol are refusing to move into apartments vacated by those who fled the city. Russian President Vladimir Putin has called empty units in the Ukrainian city 'ownerless' and is pushing local authorities to fill them with those who have nowhere else to live.
Villagers close to the Russian border in Ukraine's Sumy region say they're living under constant Russian drone surveillance and attacks. They say that, although they have friends and family across the border, they now hardly speak. A local council leader told Current Time that "the wounds are deep."
It's been 30 years since the first Chechen war when Moscow attacked the breakaway Chechen Republic, laying the capital, Grozny, to waste. Just as with the current war against Ukraine, Russia expected a quick victory and a receptive local population, but instead encountered strong resistance.
A boarding school housing displaced people was destroyed in the Ukrainian-occupied part of Russia's Kursk region late on February 1, killing at least four people and wounding many. Both Russia and Ukraine accused each other of attacking the school.
An explosion at the Alye Parusa residential complex in a Moscow suburb on February 3 reportedly targeted Armen Sarkisian, founder of the Armenian Battalion fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Some Russian media reported he had been killed in the explosion, while others said he was injured but survived.
Russia has added seven people including two Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalists to its long and growing list of “foreign agents,” a move RFE/RL’s president said was part of a “brutal assault on independent media.”
Demonstrators in Warsaw, Riga, Prague, and Vilnius decried the likely January 26 voting victory of Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenko. The European Parliament has called the election a sham.
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by video link to the World Economic Forum on January 23. Referring to his pledge to swiftly end the war in Ukraine, Trump said he wants to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon and intends to use tariffs and further sanctions to put pressure on Russia.
As Russian troops gain ground in Ukraine around Pokrovsk, residents of nearby Mezhova are taking in evacuees. Many worry as the front line of Russia's invading forces draws nearer.
Under increasing Russian fire, the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk is on the front line of Russia's invasion. The key supply hub came under heavy shelling on January 20, as residents fled burning apartment buildings amid the constant threat of attack drones.
Activists in a nature reserve in central Kyrgyzstan have reintroduced elk in a bid to restore the local ecosystem and preserve snow leopards, who traditionally feed on the elk. Thirty elk from the Altai Mountains were introduced to the area two years ago.
Ukrainian forces told Current Time how they repelled a Russian attempt to cross the Dnieper River near Kherson in December. Fighters from the Ukrainian Army's 72nd Brigade say Russian forces are trying to set up shelling positions closer to the city.
Residents of the Ukrainian city of Kherson say they face near constant attacks and that vehicles and buses are being targeted by Russian drones. Some are without running water at home and depend on free food handouts to survive.
Dozens of Central Asian migrants are being held in Russian jails with no access to proper food as they wait for deportation orders. Incarcerated migrants told RFE/RL they were being held in jails as special migrant detention facilities "were full."
Suggestions by U.S. politicians that Ukraine lower the conscription age from 25 to 18 are deeply unpopular in the country.
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