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Russia's Pervy Otdel rights group said on August 13 that Darya Trepova, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for her role in the killing of pro-Kremlin blogger Vladlen Tatarsky (aka Maksim Fomin), was transferred to a prison hospital for unspecified reasons.
Ukraine's top military commander on August 13 said Ukrainian forces have taken control of 74 settlements in Russia's Kursk region as Ukrainian forces continued to make headway.
Russia has imposed anti-terror measures in Kursk, site of a Ukrainian military incursion, and two nearby regions as well as Bryansk, and Belgorod.
Ukrainian special forces conducted an amphibious raid on the Russian-occupied Kinburn Spit in the Black Sea, killing about 30 Russian soldiers and destroying six armored vehicles, Ukraine's military intelligence said.
The acting governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Khabarovsk, Dmitry Demeshin, said on August 9 that a military parade will be held next month in the region's capital, also called Khabarovsk, to mark the victory over Japan in 1945.
Russia declared what it described as a "federal-level" emergency on August 9 in the Kursk region, the site of a four-day incursion by Ukrainian forces. The announcement came hours after a Ukrainian military strike on an airfield there.
The YouTube video-hosting site and app have stopped being accessible across Russia, thousands of Internet users in the country said online on August 8.
The governor of Russia's Kursk region bordering Ukraine said on August 7 that a state of emergency has been declared on day two of an apparent large-scale Ukrainian ground offensive that Russia says is supported by tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery.
Niger's ruling military junta has announced it is breaking off diplomatic relations with Ukraine, becoming the second African state to sever ties with Kyiv in days following comments by a Ukrainian official perceived as lending support to rebels in neighboring Mali.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on August 6 it summoned Moldova's charges d'affaires and informed him that an employee of the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow had been declared persona non grata in response to a similar move by Moldova last week.
The Moscow City Court on August 6 rejected the appeal filed by Aleksandr Kibovsky, a former member of the Moscow municipal government, against his pretrial detention on charges of fraud and bribe-taking.
A Moscow court on August 6 sentenced in absentia Russian journalist Dmitry Kolezev to 7 1/2 years in prison on a charge of "distributing false information about the Russian military motivated by political hatred."
Hugo Boss has completed the sale of its Russian business, the German luxury fashion brand has announced, the latest Western company to exit Russia over its unprovoked war in Ukraine.
Russia' Interior Ministry on August 5 added Kremlin critic and political analyst Fyodor Krasheninnikov to its wanted list on unspecified charges.
Police in Russia's northwestern region of Karelia on August 5 detained blogger Aleksei Trunov as he planned to attend an event to commemorate thousands of victims of the Soviets' "Great Purge" campaign buried in the region’s Sandarmokh area.
More than 50,000 people have been detained for political reasons after mass protests broke out following the August 2020 presidential election, said Leonid Sudalenko, a member of Belarusian human rights center Vyasna and a former political prisoner.
Russia has claimed that its armed forces seized the eastern Ukrainian village of Novoselivka Persha, as Ukrainian authorities on August 4 ordered the evacuation of civilians from areas of heavy Russian shelling in the Donetsk region.
Ukraine's military said on August 3 that it had sunk a submarine in Russian-controlled Sevastopol, attacked a southern Russian airfield, and targeted oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in a number of regions.
Russian classical pianist and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir has died in pretrial custody in the city of Birobidzhan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast.
Dmitry Savelyev, a member of the Russian parliament's upper chamber, was detained on August 2 on suspicion of involvement in a plot to kill his business partner.
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