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The chief of Russia's Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced on May 25 the start of the withdrawal of his troops from Bakhmut after claiming last week he had full control of the eastern Ukrainian city.

The Tverskoy District Court in Moscow has sentenced 25-year-old activist Andrei Klimashev to 5 1/2 years in prison, his lawyer, Maksim Ovchinnikov, said on May 24.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is to hold a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group amid calls by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for allies to speed delivery of promised F-16 fighter jets to beef up his country's air defense.

Russia and Belarus have signed documents allowing for the placement of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus, a move that has increased already strained tensions between the Kremlin and the West.

A court in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on May 25 sentenced five inmates to prison terms between 10 years and 11 years for torturing other inmates at the warden's order, one of a spate of similar cases.

Russia has postponed an international air show indefinitely for the first time in three decades, Russian media reported on May 25, citing sources in the aviation industry.

Customs duties on imports from Ukraine into the EU are to remain suspended for another year, member states agreed in Strasbourg on May 25.

A prominent Pakistani television journalist known for his public support of former Prime Minister Imran Khan has gone missing, the police, his family, and his employer said on May 25.

The West Kazakhstan regional court has rejected an appeal filed by Russian citizen Igor Sandzhiyev against a lower court's refusal to grant him asylum.

Pro-Kremlin journalist Konstantin Dolgov was fired on May 25, a day after he published the full version of an interview with Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner private mercenary group.