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A Ukrainian Army spokesman said on May 22 that Russian forces walked straight into a "trap" in Bakhmut, with Ukrainian troops advancing on the flanks of the town poised to encircle them.
Noted Russian actor Aleksei Panin, who since 2020 has lived in Spain, has been added to Russia's wanted list on unspecified charges.
Russia's most famous political prisoner spends most of his time in a 2.5-by-3-meter isolation cell. Supporters of Aleksei Navalny have created a traveling exhibition complete with a mock-up of the cell. It's currently reminding tourists and locals on Prague's Old Town Square about Navalny's plight.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has banned some 500 U.S. citizens from entering the country, including former President Barack Obama, in retaliation for the latest series of sanctions announced by the United States against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
The Greenpeace environmental group said it is shutting down its Russia operation after the Kremlin declared it an "undesirable" organization amid the government's ongoing crackdown on civil society and independent organizations.
Hundreds gathered at the main airport in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 19 to protest the return of direct flights from Russia. Georgian opposition activists protested against any warming of relations with the Kremlin because of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the 2008 war against Georgia.
The Furia, a modern, high-tech Ukrainian-made drone, makes nocturnal surveillance flights over Russian positions around Bakhmut. The reconnaissance craft with night-vision cameras provides useful data on Russian armored vehicle movements, helping to ensure accurate Ukrainian artillery strikes.
A Ukrainian antiaircraft team operating near the eastern front line says it is bringing down Russian kamikaze drones. The components are analyzed by intelligence experts to provide useful tactical data. Ukrainian soldiers can detect a Russian drone at a distance by its distinctive sound, they say.
Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka has appeared in public for the first time in six days, looking and sounding ill, amid swirling speculation about his health. He's held a tight grip on power since 1994. What does the future hold if he dies?
Empty streets, bombed-out buildings, and craters the width of a bus -- none will drive out the last residents of Novomykhaylivka, a Ukrainian village on the edge of the front line. Russian shelling has all but destroyed the settlement, but a few still tend to their gardens and a solitary goat.
At least one Russian warplane and a military helicopter have crashed in the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, Russian emergency services were quoted by TASS news agency as saying, with several reports claiming the craft had been shot down.
An elderly man was evacuated from his home in Chasiv Yar and left almost everything behind. Before he fled, he opened his doors to Ukrainian soldiers. After the house was shelled by Russian forces, those Ukrainian soldiers went on a special mission to find the grandfather's family photo albums.
After Ukraine was unable to host this year's Eurovision competition, Liverpool stepped in to host the annual song contest and is putting Ukrainian artists and culture front and center. The city in northwest England is draped in the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag.
Despite making gains in the eastern city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian troops say they continue to face intense artillery strikes from Russian forces who fire up to 500 shells a day. Current Time's Andriy Kuzakov reported from near Bakhmut on May 6 on the fighting and efforts to treat the wounded.
At dawn, Ukrainian military helicopters head toward the front. "You can feel fear a long time ahead of the flight," a pilot says. "But when you're right before the flight, you're simply doing your job."
Russian authorities have canceled May 9 Victory Day parades in at least 24 other cities. The annual event celebrates the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, some said they understood why events were toned down.
The Moscow-installed head of the Russian authorities in annexed Crimea's biggest city, Sevastopol, claimed on May 7 that more than 10 drone attacks overnight targeted the peninsula but nothing in the city itself was damaged.
The governor of Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region said on May 7 that the war-backing writer and political activist Zakhar Prilepin is awake and "stable" following an induced coma after his car was hit by an explosion a day earlier.
The Memorial human right group says the head of its branch in the Russian city of Perm, Aleksandr Chernyshov, has been ordered to serve 15 days in jail on a hooliganism charge stemming from his appearance in a Khimki court.
A Ukrainian farmer came up with an ingenious way to keep working his fields after they were strewn with Russian mines. He bought a second-hand tractor, fitted it out with homemade armor, and connected it to a remote-control driving device.
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