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Russia advanced legal mechanisms to reform the Leningrad Military District as part of ongoing large-scale military reforms. The Russian federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts published a presidential decree on October 8, prepared by the Russian

Russian forces have intensified the laying of mines in the area of the settlements of Robotyne-Verbove and are trying to hold Ukrainian forces back in areas of the frontline away from the west of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman has left Britain and intends to move to Israel, the RBC news website reported Monday, citing an unidentified source familiar with the matter.

Kyrgyz women working in Russia have reported being targeted by local recruiters trying to get them to go help the war effort in Ukraine. The calls have been widespread across Russia, particularly in places where many of the women work: hospitals, libraries, and schools.

Russia’s military will sever its contract with the late Yevgeny Prigozhin's food catering business and begin using the services of a competitor company, the Kommersant business daily reported Thursday.

Russian troops launched a missile attack on September 29 on the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv, damaging infrastructure, a regional official said, as the governor of Russia's Kursk region bordering Ukraine said a drone attack had cut off the energy supply of several settlements in the area. 

An explosion at a religious gathering in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan on September 29 killed at least 13 people and wounded at least 50 others, with officials saying the number of dead is expected to go up.

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with Andrei Troshev, the former chief of staff of the Wagner mercenary group, and handed him the responsibility for establishing new volunteer fighting units. 

The Ukrainian military says it has largely repelled a massive wave of Russian drone attacks on southern Ukraine as its troops remained locked in fierce combat with Russian forces on the front line in the east and south. 

The number of confirmed deaths following an explosion at a fuel depot in Nagorno-Karabakh is 68, according to the breakaway region's ombudsman, Gegham Stepanian.