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All 22 bodies have been recovered from the crash of a civilian helicopter Russia’s Kamchatka, the second such incidient in the Far East region in the past three years.
The bodies of 17 dead were recovered on September 1 amid the wreckage of a civilian Mi-8 helicopter that disappeared the previous day in Russia’s Kamchatka region with 22 aboard.
Ukrainian officials said dozens of people were injured when Russian missiles struck a shopping and entertainment complex in the battered northeastern city of Kharkiv, while authorities in Moscow reported damage to industrial sites following a massive drone strike on the Russian capital.
A helicopter with 22 people on board has crashed in Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka region, Russia’s civil aviation agency reported on August 31.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on August 30 that authorities in Venezuela had arrested two Colombian citizens believed to have served as mercenaries with the Ukrainian armed forces.
The Kremlin on August 30 said it is not concerned about President Vladimir Putin's visit to Mongolia on September 3, despite an arrest warrant that the International Criminal Court (ICC) says Mongolia is obligated to act on.
Russia's Justice Ministry on August 30 added the founder of the Latvia-based Meduza news website, Galina Timchenko, to its list of "foreign agents." The website itself was added to the list in April 2021.
A court in Moscow has extended the detention and released the names of five more men suspected of being involved in the terror attack at the Crocus City entertainment center that claimed 145 lives near the Russian capital in late March.
A court in Russia on August 28 extended the pretrial detention of saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, who has a very serious medical condition, for another six months over his anti-war stance.
At least nine people were killed by fresh Russian attacks on two Ukrainian regions on August 28 as Kyiv's drones struck three Russian regions, setting an oil depot on fire in Russia's Rostov region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv has conducted its first test of a domestically produced ballistic missile as Russia unleashed a second day of deadly strikes on across Ukraine.
At least 4 people were killed while several others were either wounded or missing on August 27 in a second massive drone and missile Russian attack on Ukraine in as many days that included a strike on a hotel in Kryviy Rih, in the southern region of Dnipropetrovsk.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on August 26 that the arrest of Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was not political.
Several Telegram channels reported on August 26 that a major explosion rocked Russia's largest oil refinery sparking a fire at the facility.
A Moscow court issued an arrest warrant on August 26 for Aleksandra Frolova, a self-exiled member of late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny's team.
Thirty months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine decimated revenues and restricted access to the parts and service needed to keep its mostly foreign-produced fleet in operation, Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship carrier, is struggling to retain pilots and crews and maintain flight-ready planes.
Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was detained at the Bourget airport outside Paris late on August 24, French media reported, citing unnamed sources.
Russian Patriarch Kirill on August 23 enforced the decision to defrock Orthodox priest Andrei Kudrin over his prayers for reconciliation between Russians and Ukrainians.
The Russian National Guard said its snipers killed four hostage-takers when security forces stormed a prison in the southwestern region of Volgograd after knife-wielding prisoners reportedly launched a deadly attack on guards and held some staff hostage.
A court in Russia's Krasnodar region said on August 23 that it had handed prison sentences to the first group of participants in anti-Jewish mob unrest in the North Caucasus region of Daghestan in October 2023.
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