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The deaths of two ethnic Azerbaijanis amid allegations of torture during a police raid last week in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg has quickly escalated into a diplomatic confrontation highlighting difficulties in Moscow's relations with its former Soviet republics.
A Soviet-era “Bukhanka” van, retrofitted with modern tech, scans for Russian drones, helping Ukrainian troops survive fierce battles near Pokrovsk, the current hotspot in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A Current Time crew talked to Ukrainian artillerymen fighting outside the city of Pokrovsk as they try to prevent Russian assault groups from approaching it.
As Russian forces push closer to Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, many families already displaced by war are being forced to flee once more. With evacuations under way and the front line advancing, they don’t know if they’ll ever see their homes again.
Amid the war in Ukraine, a girl from Odesa named Nastya Buryk was fighting her own battle with leukemia. Her mother sought out medical care in Israel, where they spent more than two years. But the violence they had escaped in Ukraine caught up with them in Israel when a new war with Iran began.
Nastya Buryk, a young girl from Odesa, was diagnosed with leukemia six months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her mother took her to Israel for treatment. But after more than two years of fighting cancer, Nastya and her mother were caught in an Iranian air strike against Israel.
As Russia’s war in Ukraine drags into its fourth summer, the country’s booming funeral industry offers a stark indicator of the conflict’s human toll, with soaring burial costs and growing complaints from grieving families.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heads into its fourth summer, the country’s funeral industry is seeing record growth.
At their June 24-25 summit in The Hague, NATO leaders agreed to a sharp increase in defense spending. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte praised US President Donald Trump for pushing the allies toward making greater commitments. Meanwhile, Trump touted the success of recent US air strikes on Iran.
Russia will soon teach high school students how to build and fly drones, which have become a key weapon in the war between Moscow and Kyiv.
After rifles and grenade launchers, drones are now landing in Russian schools. A new state-approved textbook teaches teens how to build and fly UAVs as a part of a national project to militarize education by 2030.
A special Ukrainian police unit, the White Angels, rescues civilians in remote areas of the northeastern Sumy region, which is facing increasing attacks from Russia. Reaching civilians in danger puts the unit in the crosshairs of Russian attack drones, so speed and stealth are essential.
In Ukraine's embattled Sumy region, frontline medics race to save lives at a makeshift stabilization point as Russian forces intensify cross-border attacks.
Working from a makeshift "stabilization point," Ukrainian military medics work fast to provide emergency care for the wounded, treating both soldiers and local civilians in the Sumy region. The area, near Russia's border, is under heavy aerial bombardment from an assortment of weapons.
Kremlin-friendly pundits and programs have been savoring every shot of protesters in Los Angeles this week, some proclaiming that the United States must be in midst of a new "civil war."
Russian media are describing protests in Los Angeles over immigration crackdowns and the deployment of the National Guard as "fighting, violence, and provocations." Some suggest a conspiracy is behind the demonstrations, while one compares it to "a war zone."
Russia said its forces are advancing into Ukraine’s eastern industrial Dnipropetrovsk region for the first time in three years amid a deadlock in peace talks.
Ukrainian officials have rejected Russian accusations that Kyiv is stalling the exchange of prisoners of war and the repatriation of fallen soldiers’ bodies, calling on Moscow to stop “playing dirty games.”
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