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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on September 18 that Kyiv has "fully prepared" its "victory plan" to end the war with Russia and the most important thing now is the determination to implement it.
Moscow resident Yury Kokhovets has been sentenced to five years in prison for condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine during an interview on the street in July 2022 with a reporter from RFE/RL.
A Moscow court on September 17 transferred Vyacheslav Akhmedov, the director of the Defense Ministry's Patriot Park -- a military-themed complex near Moscow -- to house arrest after he was arrested last month on fraud charges.
Unknown attackers on September 16 threw a Molotov cocktail at the house of Dmitry Tyulenev, the father of popular Russian blogger in exile Danya Milokhin, who has openly condemned Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Investigators in the United States have arrested a 44-year-old Russian national in Sarasota, Florida, on an indictment charging him with conspiring to violate the Export Control Reform Act, to commit smuggling, to commit money laundering, and to defraud the United States.
Russia's Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by self-exiled television journalist Tatyana Lazareva against her status as being a "foreign agent."
The Swiss-based Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid group on September 16 said it has been forced to close its operations in Russia.
A court in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg on September 16 sentenced a Russian man to eight years in prison for stabbing to death a 32-year-old postgraduate student from Gabon.
Ukraine invited the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit Russian territory it has captured in a surprise incursion into the Kursk region.
Russian officials have threatened that a possible decision by the West to allow Kyiv to use donated weapons to strike deeper into Russian territory would result in a major escalation of its war against Ukraine that could include the use of nuclear weapons.
Russia's central bank raised its key interest rate to 19 percent from 18 percent, citing a recent acceleration of inflation.
The European Union has condemned the recent alleged transfer of Iranian-made ballistic missiles to Russia and is considering new sanctions against Tehran in response.
The Russian Prosecutor-General's Office on September 13 declared the Poland-based Belsat TV channel, which broadcasts in Belarusian, an "undesirable organization."
A court in Russia's Vladimir region on September 12 began the trial of three former lawyers for late opposition politician Aleksei Navalny on extremism charges over their association with the Kremlin critic and his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
A military court in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk said on September 12 that it sentenced Private Oleg Gorbachyov of the Russian armed forces to 8 years in prison for beating his wife to death.
Russian TV journalist Nikolai Svanidze, who is credited as one of founders of Russian television, died in Moscow on September 12
As fighting continues to rage in Kursk, RFE/RL’s Russian Service has been keeping track of Ukraine’s incursion with an interactive map of events that uses information compiled and verified from open sources, such as Twitter and Telegram.
A local court in the Moscow region on September 9 sentenced an engineer at a military factory in the city of Dubna to three years in prison for writing pro-Ukrainian messages on key chains.
A court of appeals in St. Petersburg on September 9 rejected an appeal filed by physicist Anatoly Maslov against the 14-year prison sentence he was handed in May on a high treason charge.
Ukrainian officials said a widespread Russian drone-and-missile attack had targeted Kyiv and critical infrastructure in Ukraine's northeast, while Russian officials said an overnight swarm of attack drones from Ukraine killed a woman near the capital and grounded flights at three Moscow airports.
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