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Kyiv and Moscow pledged to halt fighting for 32 hours to mark Orthodox Easter, as US-backed peace negotiations to end Russia's four-year war falter and Washington focuses on its own war with Iran.
Russia's Supreme Court has allowed the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group to be labeled as an "extremist" organization, a move that will allow authorities to go after anyone who contributes to the work of the group or shares materials it has published.
Russia's main security agency detained a former Russian freelancer for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, accusing the man of treason and claiming he allegedly communicated with Ukrainian intelligence.
At least three people, including a two-year-old, were killed in an overnight Russian drone strike on the southern Ukrainian port of Odesa, Ukraine said on April 6. On the same day, Kyiv also said it had hit a Russian missile carrier in an attack on the port of Novorossiisk.
Residents of Daghestan in southern Russia were evacuating their homes as major floods swept through the region. The disaster is the result of record rainfall combined with melting snow from the mountains, but some residents also blame local officials for mismanaging the region's infrastructure.
A Russian court has banned the Oscar-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin, a documentary about wartime propaganda in a Russian provincial school that officials claim promotes extremism and antigovernment sentiment.
Two Russian major ports were pounded by drones over three days as Moscow and Kyiv continued to exchange hundreds of air strikes, marking a spike in fighting as peace talks appear to be stalling despite Ukraine's attempt to revive the issue in Florida last week.
The governments of five European countries on February 14 released a statement saying that they are confident that the Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin not found naturally in Russia -- a poisoning that led to his death in a Russian prison two years ago.
Russian law enforcement agencies have detained a suspect and his alleged accomplice in an apparent assassination attempt on the deputy chief of the GRU military intelligence agency, Vladimir Alekseyev, Russian media reported on February 7.
Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, after two days of "constructive" peace talks in Abu Dhabi, are set to resume negotiations in the United Arab Emirates capital next week, even as the war itself showed no signs of letup.
Ukraine has condemned a massive Russian attack overnight and into January 24 as an attempt to upend peace negotiations in the United Arab Emirates aimed at ending the nearly four-year-long full-scale war.
Russia has freed imprisoned French researcher Laurent Vinatier in exchange for a Russian basketball player held in France and wanted in the United States for alleged ties to a computer hacking group.
Multiple drones hit the Russian port city of Temryuk overnight, igniting fuel tanks and damaging industrial facilities, authorities said. The strike came as Russia launched a large wave of nighttime drone attacks across Ukraine.
Russian forces launched one of their largest drone assaults in weeks overnight, striking multiple regions across Ukraine and inflicting more damage to the country’s energy network.
Amid steps to expand control over online communications, the Russian government has unveiled a new package of digital security measures that would sharply restrict international phone calls being made to people inside the country.
Efforts to find a resolution to halt Russia's nearly 4-year-old war on Ukraine appear to hit a brick wall after a Moscow meeting between US negotiators and President Vladimir Putin as Kremlin and Russian officials signal little willingness to back down from hard-line demands.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff has flown back to the United States following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin without meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the Kremlin leader's position on a US draft peace proposal.
Former RFE/RL contributor Nika Novak, who was sentenced to prison last year by a Russian court for carrying out her professional duties, has disappeared from a Siberian correctional colony, her lawyer said.
Russian air strikes pounded Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine overnight, killing several people and wounding dozens of others -- including a pregnant woman -- as Moscow continues to hit civilian infrastructure.
Russia carried out a large, overnight combined strike using drones and missiles across multiple Ukrainian regions, with officials emphasizing that energy infrastructure and civilian facilities were key targets.
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